Abstract Embroidery : Search Press : 9781800920965 : 1800920962 : 31 Dec 2023 : Get inspiration from Emily Botelho - the genius behind Salt Stitches - and learn to create highly detailed abstract works of embroidered art. From mini hoops to larger fabric canvas work, ideas to capture your natural surroundings abound in this stunning book. Drawing on her love of nature, Emily Botelho creates highly textured and incredibly detailed embroidery pieces. Her work is organic, intuitive and celebrates patterns found in the natural world. She uses three environments ? coastal, mountain and urban ? to illustrate her creative process, describing how to find inspiration and where to look for interesting textures, color palettes and items to use as embellishments. Each piece is constructed of fabric printed with a source image that Emily photographs, based on her knowledge of which textures will translate well into stitches. She then layers stitching and embellishments over the fabric to approxi