Video: The world of embroidery. Epic seamstress Heather Hams
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Embroidery is a whole peace, in which you can find everything: cities, people, roads, and a blade of grass, and a forest, every spikelet in the field … But first you need to weave the Universe with your own hands. This is what the 69-year-old has been doing for the last 17 years. Heather Hams, and as a result, she got an incredibly large-scale collection of works that claims to be entered in the Guinness Book of Records. Athletes, musicians, scientists, pioneers; to the world on a thread - here is the embroidery!
Many of us have our own little hobbies and hobbies - but not everyone devotes them 12 hours a day. Englishwoman Heather Hems (Heather Hems) began to get involved embroidery at the age of 10, in Ceylon, where she was born. For many years, in her free time, she perfected her art, sometimes creating large works for charitable foundations. But the talent fully developed only after Mrs. Hams retired: every night the old lady, after all the household chores, sat down to work. She conceived to embody in embroidery the people and events of our time that made our world what it is.
And, it seems, she did it, despite the surgery on the shoulder joint. total area world of embroiderydesigned by Heather Hams, is twice the size of the Bayeux tapestry (a colossal medieval carpet listed in the UNESCO Memory of the World) - in other words, it is 50 square meters! Twenty-three canvases by Heather Hams are titled Our Planet, Sports, Celebrities, Holidays, Authors, Explorers, Ballet and Opera, and so on. A real epic of the world!
The embroidery area is 4 to 8 square feet. Before starting work, Heather Hams first draws a panorama of faces, events, buildings and objects in the original style. The embroideries are exhibited in Lyndhurst, UK, where the epic seamstress lives. Heather Hams is considering applying to the Guinness Book of Records. But it is too early to set a record: who knows how many wonderful embroidered paintings the artist will create in the years she has given her!
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