SHADOW WORK, PICTURE

1990
Overview

Purple Enamel Orchid (Elythranthera sp.)
(a) Five open Purple Enamel orchid flowers in shadow work, forming an oval, connected by green stems ending in closed flower buds.
(b) Four samples: open orchid flower in variety of thread colours, sample of flower shape in herringbone stitches, sample of flower in shadow quilting with needle weave throat to flower, sample of shadow density, using net, and Turkish stitch around petal

Details

Details

Registration number
cwa-org-78-2020.128a,b
Item type
Year
Last modified
Wednesday, 13 August, 2025
Completeness
83
Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

Embroiderers' Guild of WA Textile Museum

Shadow work Purple Enamel Orchid
Shadow work Purple Enamel Orchid
Sample Board
Sample Board

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