Once your needlework is finished and you decided that you want to use it as a wall decoration, you have few options on how to do that: making it a hoop wall art, framing or mounting on a canvas. Today I prepared a tutorial for the latter one (this is a lengthy post, you were warned). Mounting Hand Embroidery. Why? So, why would you want to mount your needlework on a canvas? What are the benefits? Honestly speaking, there are no profound advantages or benefits for this. And I won't say that…

Embroidery has been around forever — the earliest surviving pieces of this craft are Scythian, dated to between the 5th and 3rd centuries BCE. Virtually every culture has some form of it in their textile art history.

Combine painting with embroidery to make these Embroidered Canvas Paintings. Muted pastels and simple florals turn plain canvases into modern art.

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