We often say in the RSN Embroidery Studio that pieces come along like buses, all at once, and this has certainly been the case with chairs over the last 18 months.

We were approached by a client who had commissioned a chair to be upholstered in the most amazing fabric, depicting country scenes and fishermen, all in shade of green on a pale cream coloured background. The client wanted to refurbish a second chair that would sit with this one and commissioned us to embroider one of the Fishermen.

The embroidery was on a plain off-white linen for the back of the chair, and the seat was also in off-white, with the special fabric used in other areas on the chair. The embroidery was worked in several different weights of thread and only in three shades of green, with a fourth thread of a dark grey blue as a low light.

The design from the fabric to be made in embroidery was quite sketchy in appearance, so the embroidery used a combination of stitches that could be worked in such a way that they appear to be drawn, thus replicating the feel of the original fabric design. Only the main lines of the design were transferred onto the fabric and stitched, whilst the rest were stitched freehand as if sketched with stitch straight onto the fabric. This is a great way to embroider, and the team really enjoy the freedom of this process. It also allows the studio embroiderer to use their amazing skill and add their own feel to the piece, making it an individual, unrepeatable piece of embroidery. The chair will be finished with a cushion made in the original fabric that will sit perfectly below the embroidery.

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