Sewing Paintings - Hyper-Realistic Embroidery

Sewing Paintings - Hyper-Realistic Embroidery


These incredibly realistic scenes from rural life have been painstakingly created by a British artist in her own living room - sewn using just a needle and thread.

Sewing Paintings HyperRealistic Embroidery Sewing Paintings HyperRealistic Embroidery

Jill Draper, 62, renders pictures of rural life and shimmering seascapes in her embroidered tapestries recreating scenes with astonishing accuracy from photographs. Each picture measuring around 15 by 30 inches takes up to 120 and contains hundreds of thousands of stitches done by hand and machine.