Embroidery Book 3, 2022-25, Pages 5-6

By Laura Vivanco on
A grey rat is smelling a pink flower. Both are raised off the page.

I started the rat in 2022 but left it unfinished until February 2025. I embroidered the body in two different shades of grey. The rat is based on an image made available by the DataBase Center for Life Science and I used the different layers in that image to guide me when I built up layers of material to make the stumpwork (raised) embroidery version of the rat. The carnation is made out of pink needlelace.

The text accompanying the rat is "Take therefore no thought for the morrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself" (Matthew 6:34).

The text is to the left, embroidered in black thread on a white background, and the rat is to the right, on a grey background