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Title: Star of Hearts
Artist: Diane Herrmann
Designer: Kathleen Rake
Materials: Needlepoint canvas, cotton, metallic, and silk thread.
Technique: Needlepoint
Artist’s Statement: This piece is a teaching piece from the
Group Correspondence Course selection of the Embroiderers Guild of America
(EGA). While meant to give the stitcher instruction both in technique for composite
stitching, as well as in color, this piece also illustrates the use of diaper
pattern in needlepoint. Simply put, diaper patterns are those that have visual
diagonals in two directions. In this piece, all the stitched hearts include
diaper patterns. The smaller hearts on the inside and outside of the larger
hearts also illustrate how the use of different color in the same stitched pattern
alters the perception of the diagonals.