Silk Shading Fox Owl applying soft string and felt

applying soft string and felt padding

High quality giclee prints of Helen's Badger from her British Wildlife Collection on Somerset Satin paper with ivory card mount

Learn the beautiful embroidery technique of silk shading to create this charming garden bird design of a long tailed tit

Gutermann thread

Fine stranded cotton threads are used to delicately blend between colours and to build up the texture of fur and spines

Silk Shading Fox Owl applying soft string and feltLearn the beautiful embroidery technique of silk shading to create this charming fox design. Fine stranded cotton threads are used to delicately blend between colours and to build up the texture of fur. Silk Shading refers to the hand embroidery technique which uses a variety of long and short stitches and colour blending in stranded cotton or silk threads. Often referred to as painting with a needle, this technique can be used to create realistic