For a change, I wanted to do something quite subtle and soft, deceptively conservative and even repressed, but with a twist. So I thought embroidery, that traditional ladylike past-time to ponder all kinds of things on long afternoons, and that I still had to learn at school, was the perfect way to adorn some silk flowers.
Which came with really quite prominent centre parts ; )
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Like a Virgin I (2010)
silk flowers, glass beads, crystals, antique imitation pearls, antique catch
Like a Virgin II (2010)
silk flowers, glass beads, crystals, antique imitation pearls, antique catch
Both sides were embroidered.
