Garden Birds: Blue Tit - Original Hand Embroidery mouse This piece is mounted on

This piece is mounted on card covered in 'dark olive' cotton fabric and is elegently framed in a plain wooden box frame

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Silk Shading Harvest Mouse Workshop

Additional equipment required: 6 inch ring frame and embroidery scissors

Combine the beautiful embroidery technique of blackwork with coloured stranded cotton and silver metal threads to create this elegant design inspired by the style of the Mackintosh Rose

Garden Birds: Blue Tit - Original Hand Embroidery mouse This piece is mounted onOriginal hand embroidery of a Blue Tit from the Garden Bird collection. This beautifully detailed little bird sat upon a large needle took approximately 20 hours to embroider using a combination of two techniques called silk shading and stumpwork. Silk shading, sometimes known as 'painting with the needle' was used to replicate the delicate soft texture of the feathers by blending together eight shades of stranded cotton threads, each one inserted