Silk Shading Harvest Mouse royal school of needlework Design dimensions: 5cm x 6cm

Design dimensions: 5cm x 6cm

High quality giclee prints of Helen's Little Owl from her British Wildlife Collection on Somerset Satin paper with ivory card mount

both of which are essential when creating a piece of metal thread work

fine tipped marker pen

The decorative embroidery stitches in tones of tawny brown stranded cotton include long and short stitch and fly stitch

Silk Shading Harvest Mouse royal school of needlework Design dimensions: 5cm x 6cmLearn the beautiful embroidery technique of silk shading to create this charming harvest mouse design. Fine stranded cotton threads are used to delicately blend between colours and to build up the texture of fur. Silk Shading refers to the hand embroidery technique which uses a variety of long and short stitches and colour blending in stranded cotton or silk threads. Often referred to as painting with a needle, this technique can be used to create