The Art of Embroidered Butterflies by Jane E. Hall

Author:Jane E. Hall
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Search Press
Published: 2022-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

The study

My Holly Blue study illustrates two dainty female butterflies resting on ivy, perhaps considering laying eggs to become second-brood caterpillars of the ‘silken species’, peculiar to rarefied artistic climes!

The embroidered Holly Blue butterfly settled amongst some of the threads, watercolour pencils and brushes used to describe the beauty of its natural counterpart.

They were fashioned by painting, then minutely stitching their silken wings, attaching them to tiny, modelled, paper-clay bodies with silk-bound legs and antennae. They rest against ivy leaves cut from lightweight silk dyed verdant green. The leaves are wired through their mid-veins, all but invisible stitches catching a very fine wire tightly in place through a channel pinched into the silk as I oversew. These wired leaves are bound and stitched into a delicate bough comprising wire bound with ribbons of dyed silk fabric. Ivy tendrils are suggested with silk-bound wire contorted to rest naturalistically amongst the foliage.

Here, much magnified, the miniature stitched scales of the Holly Blue are clearly visible. So too the stitched mid-veins of the ivy, carrying a fine wire beneath the leaves which enables me to manipulate them naturalistically within the composition.

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