Queen of Flowers

This piece by Carol-Anne Conway is stitched in a Japanese embroidery technique known as ‘fuzzy effect’. As far as I know this technique is unique to Japanese embroidery.

It is stitched on a special ground fabric that has a pronounced weft valley. The threads are stitched into the valley and then couched with either short stitches perpendicular to the foundation thread or with longer diagonal stitches. By using different thicknesses of foundation thread and by altering the colour of the couching threads, a rich composition can be created using a limited pallet of colours.

Queen of Flowers
© JEC/Carol-Anne Conway

Detail of left-hand flower
© JEC/Carol-Anne Conway

Detail of right-hand flower
© JEC/Carol-Anne Conway