Farmer with Cow

How we tackled the challenges of black and white photo embroidery.

Creating a black and white photo embroideries proved to be an especially challenging because of limited number of thread colours that are available.

We layered multiple colours of threads and so create rich embroidery and colour texture that is impossible to create with classic one-layer embroidery technique.

About motif

Farmer proud of his cow amazes with its simple imagery and primeval emotion.

Deep zoom of the artwork

https://www.ercigojart.com/gallery/farmer-with-cow/

Artwork info

Motif: by Steve McCurry
Type: Photo embroidery
Technique: Ercigoj stitch
Year: 2014 — ongoing
Edition: Limited (10)

Dimension: 101 x 67 cm | 39.8 x 26.4 in
Number of stitches: over 1.9 mio
Thread length: over 23 km | over 14.3 mi
Development: over 500 person hours

Also available in:
80 x 53 cm | 31.5 x 20.1 in, limited edition (10)
150 x 100 cm | 59.1 x 39.4 in, limited edition (5)

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