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Embroidery By Jill Draper
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A British artist Jill Draper, 62, using just a needle and thread to recreate scenes from photographs in embroidered tapestries. And all this with astonishing accuracy. She sells them on her website for £500-£1500 ($760 - $2280).
Embroidery is the art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as metal strips, pearls, beads, quills, and sequins.
A characteristic of embroidery is that the basic techniques or stitches of the earliest work—chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, cross stitch—remain the fundamental techniques of hand embroidery today.
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