Sunday, July 15, 2012

Silk Ribbon Dragon

This is a dragon I created for "The New Ribbon Embroidery". Found this piece while continuing the never-ending job of cleaning out the studio. I collect books on Chinese Embroidery. The dragon was adapted from an illustration stitched onto a purse. The dragon is 5"x8". I sketched the dragon onto an orange shot silk fabric. Outlined, over the pencil sketch, with couched gold thread. The inside of the dragon body was filled in with Ribbon Stitches and French Knots,and finished with gold beads.

3 comments:

Victoria Adams Brown said...

Thank you!

Stephanie said...

BEAUTIFUL!!! You need to frame it.

Stephanie said...

WOW! Have you been busy! Love all those colors.