Amazing Embroidery from Gallery Hanahou

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Reading Design for Mankind last night, we came across a link to these charming embroidered artworks. In February, New York's Gallery Hanahou exhibited these pieces as part of an exhibition titled Forget Me-Not. The show's been over for a couple weeks, but you can still buy the artwork through the Junie Moon site...

FIRST ROW
• 1 Birds and Bees by Amy Ray, $80
• 2 With Strings Attached by Diem Chau, $600
• 3 Bear Hug by Emily Katz, $100
• 4 Lonely by Heidi Kennedy, $45
• 5 Together by Kate Durkin, $45

SECOND ROW
• 6 The Hook Up by Katherine Shaughnessy, $45
• 7 Martha and George Go Abroad by Vivienne Strauss, $150
• 8 Three Happy Hearts by Jenny Herada, $100
• 9 American Pika by Pamela Davis, $80
• 10 Book of Hours by Jessica Marquez, $110

For the complete selection, click here.

Found via Design for Mankind.

Comments (10)

Beautiful work! The first one is gorgeous.

posted by That70sHeidi on March 13th 2009 at 12:13pm
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Pretty crude and amateurish for the prices, I'm thinking... For that price range, I'd expect more delicacy and expertise and less machine stitching... or at least a hefty dontation to charity. Sorry, but I do better embroidery work than that...

posted by SherryBinNH on March 13th 2009 at 12:42pm
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The prices are shocking.

I do embroidery work, it's my latest hobby. These have given me some great ideas for my own stuff!

posted by BambiJo on March 13th 2009 at 1:00pm
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I have to agree with SherryBinNH and BambiJo about the prices and level of expertise. I'm a textile geek and have been able to embroider, sew, knit, crochet, spin and weave since I was a little girl and I would be able to reproduce all of the above pieces without too much trouble.

BUT I guess you're paying for the original art and not just the quality of the work.

posted by Monica on March 13th 2009 at 1:09pm
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I've actually been to the gallery and the best pieces aren't even shown here!! The prices might be high if you are thinking about the actual materials but it's a creativity, time, and passion of the artist you are paying for... and in my case I always think I'm going to make some craft and it ends of half done and then I always wish I just bought the original piece I was inspired by. Non-buyers remorse.

Anyway, the day after the opening they had a four hour workshop with some of the artists for only $40 a person, materials included!!! I went and the time flew by, I learned a lot (I'm a pretty novice stitcher but it was for all levels) and the conversation with all the ladies was a riot :)

posted by jennycupcake on March 13th 2009 at 1:29pm
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The third one is awesome. I'm an embroiderer and really love these. I need to get away from patterns and start making my own.

posted by first5times on March 13th 2009 at 2:19pm
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I love the second one, if it weren't the four time the cost of the others I would consider buying them. I can crochet and knit, but I never learned to do embroidery.

posted by Rolen the Great on March 13th 2009 at 2:33pm
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That $80 is better spent on a donation to St. Judes.

posted by Seaside on March 13th 2009 at 5:28pm
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I'd have to agree with jennycupcake! No offense to these particular artists, but this is a pretty unrepresentative selection of the pieces that were in the show! The show was pretty terrific!
To Seaside: Couldn't that be said about most every purchase, particularly on a decorating blog?

posted by 321trickpony on April 3rd 2009 at 2:37pm
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p.s. guys, don't forget most gallerys take 50%!

posted by 321trickpony on April 3rd 2009 at 2:43pm
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