Lụa và thêu tay · Silk & hand embroidery · Edition of 8
Cushion cover, embroidered cranes
Thêu tay — hand embroidery; two cranes in split thread on hand-loomed silk, backed in linen.
Lê Thị Hoa
Two cranes — the bird of long life on the old altar cloths — in thread split into four, on a square of Vạn Phúc silk, backed in linen with a hidden zip. Four weeks of mornings for each cover.
For a chair that is sat in. Silk embroidery is stronger than it looks, and the cranes have survived four hundred years of cushions.
- Materials
- Silk thread on hand-loomed Vạn Phúc silk, linen back, hidden zip
- Technique
- Hand embroidery, split thread, shading by stitch
- Dimensions
- 45 × 45 cm · 17.7 × 17.7 in · 0.2 kg, cover only
- Edition
- Edition of 8 · Signed and sealed
- Made
- Quất Động, Thường Tín · 2026
The making
Four weeks of mornings
Smaller than a panel, worked the same way: before ten, with the light flat.
I
The ground
Vạn Phúc silk stretched on the frame.
II
The drawing
The cranes traced in a single thread.
III
The stitching
Thread split into four; shading laid stitch by stitch.
IV
The making up
Backed in linen; zip hidden in the seam; initialled in the corner.
From the same village
