Latest posts tagged with #turkeywork on Bluesky
#Turkeywork (also Norwich-work) is a hand-knotted and cut wool pile furnishing textile popular from the C16 - mid C18 in England. Elizabethan Turkeywork was commercially produced in 1583 in Norwich but also in Windsor and York.
Original designs imitated Middle Eastern imported carpets.
An embroidered portrait of Chappell Roan in progress, mostly sketched design with a messy explosion of thread on the left side. Soon, it will (hopefully) look like fluffy hair.
Turkey work and punch needle are the most aggressively ‘trust the process’ crafts I think I’ve ever practiced.
#embroidery #turkeywork #portraitembroidery
A 3-d bumblebee made of felt, iridescent fabric and thread stitched on pink and yellow and green fabric
A #fuzzy bumblebee for #FebuArty #bumblebee #embroidery #turkeywork
