Artneedlepoint Blog
Mary Granville Delany bloomed in her 70s, when she embarked on her life’s work — creating 985 life-size botanical masterpieces inventing a form of paper-cutting or decoupage, which she called her “paper mosaiks” now held by the British Museum…..
Maria Sibylla Merian, age 52, in 1699, more than a century before Charles Darwin explored the Galapagos, she set sail for a projected 5 year expedition to Suriname, the northern coast of South America…..
Sometimes threads do the work. Sometimes stitches do the heavy lifting. Often you will have a canvas that has details going in different directions such as in the Sunday Hats……