Lụa và thêu tay · Silk & hand embroidery · Unique
Small embroidered panel, kingfisher
Thêu tay — hand embroidery; a kingfisher over water in thread split into six, the blue blended from nine shades.
Lê Thị Hoa
A kingfisher on a reed over water, the size of a book, in thread split into six: the blue of the bird blended from nine shades laid side by side, the water from four. Six weeks of mornings in the late rains, when the light at Hoa’s window is softest.
The smallest panel she has made this year, and the one she was slowest to let go of.
- Materials
- Silk thread on hand-loomed Vạn Phúc silk, linen backing
- Technique
- Hand embroidery, split thread, shading by stitch
- Dimensions
- 32 × 26 cm · 12.6 × 10.2 in · 0.2 kg, unframed
- Edition
- Unique work · Signed and sealed on the reverse
- Made
- Quất Động, Thường Tín · 2026
The making
Six weeks of mornings, in four movements
A small panel is not faster; the stitches are the same size.
I
The ground
Vạn Phúc silk stretched and left a week.
II
The drawing
The bird and the reed traced in a single thread.
III
The blue
Nine shades laid side by side until the eye blends them.
IV
The last morning
Initials stitched a shade off the ground; a week more on the frame.
From the same village
