Thanks to Embroidery, These Vintage Postcards Became Beautiful Artwork

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Francesca Colussi Cramer was excited when she discovered a cute little vintage shop near her home in North Wales. She purchased some old photos and postcards and started creating embroidery patterns on them.

“Adding thread on paper alters an existing surface and creates such a rich texture and contrast with the original image itself,” Cramer says. “It’s both visual and tactile, and doing it on paper, instead of fabric, comes with challenges and differences that I find more intriguing every day. It is a sort of conversation with the past in the images, like lifting a layer of dust and letting the color through, adding another chapter.”

Do you like them? Check out more on her Instagram page.

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Thank you so much for all the photographs and postcards that you sent me. Some of you trusted me with very precious family photographs. It’s going to be so hard to choose! I’ll go and collect the last parcels arriving today at Mostyn, because, well… I didn’t realised that the 31 was a Sunday! Hand embroidery on my own old Egon Schiele’s 2003 calendar. The title is in Italian because at the time I was still living there: “Casa con biancheria stesa ad asciugare” 1917 (which means “house with laundry hanging out to dry”). But I always thought that the tree was in serious need of some flowers… #francescacramer #francescacolussi #contemporaryembroidery #embroideryonpaper #textileartist #contemporaryart #embroidery #stitchedintervantions #dscolor #dslooking #embroideredphoto #mixedmedia #thatsdarling #bandofun #flashesofdelight #design #art #contemporarycraft #appropriation #textileart #textileartist #egonschiele #schiele

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