RED BOTANICA is an embroidery kit featuring four medieval botanical illustrations rendered into patterns on water-soluble fabric stickers. The kit also includes a skein of red embroidery floss in homage to the redwork tradition, a 19th-century American folk art style, as well as a needle and detailed illustrated instructions. From the tutorial: "The artworks I have reconstructed for this kit are many centuries older than the redwork tradition itself. Arising from a range of European herbal texts, medieval botanical art lends itself well to embroidery, with its simplified approach to anatomy. I find the idea of depicting plants in red to be an intriguing and even provocative infusion of red-blooded animality into botanical forms."
RED BOTANICA is an embroidery kit featuring four medieval botanical illustrations rendered into patterns on water-soluble fabric stickers. The kit also includes a skein of red embroidery floss in homage to the redwork tradition, a 19th-century American folk art style, as well as a needle and detailed illustrated instructions. From the tutorial: "The artworks I have reconstructed for this kit are many centuries older than the redwork tradition itself. Arising from a range of European herbal texts, medieval botanical art lends itself well to embroidery, with its simplified approach to anatomy. I find the idea of depicting plants in red to be an intriguing and even provocative infusion of red-blooded animality into botanical forms."
