Embroiderers' Guild of Victoria The technique of crewel embroidery is thought to be over a thousand years old. This great diagram does a wonderful job of explaining the basic stitches. Many thanks to TW's Needlework Blog for this at https://twneedlework.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/stitches/
Asena-the second daughter of Tristian and Kameke. Unlike her two other full blooded sisters, Asena was allowed to stay in Aeston and raised among her other siblings.
In the portrait series “Foam Sculptures,” Dutch photographer Suzanne Jongmans adorns her subjects in packing foam costumes and creates wonderful portraits of them in a style reminiscent of century Dutch Golden Age portraiture.
