Macro Embroidery
Object Details
- Blog Post Category
- Blog Post
- Object of the Day
- Uncategorized
- embroidery
- twisted
- yarn
- Description
In celebration of Women’s History Month, March Object of the Day posts highlight women designers in the collection. Cour de Rohan, which bears the name of Sheila Hicks’s home in Paris, is an example of the artist’s “macro-embroidery” process, a scaled-up version of the embroidery stitch known as point de couchage or point lancé et...
- Data Source
- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- Published Date
- Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:00:43 +0000
- Creator
- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
- Type
- Blog posts
- Smithsonian staff publications
- Blog posts
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- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Topic
- Design
- Record ID
- posts_52b4dc5ac0818148cc23dce8f888f164
