This is a digital representation of a typical cushion pattern embroidered by the refugee women of the Association for Camp Development in Lebanon, called the INAASH Association. INAASH: the Association for the preservation of Palestinian culture through embroidery.
I made a variety of digital embroidery stitches in Photoshop and built up the image. Strangely enough, typical sewing and knitting patterns can be considered to be pure digital images, each stitch being equivalent to a pixel. Obvious when you think about it. Here's the finished product. I made it to be of high resolution so it comes in at 1 metre square at 300 dpi for starters:
Here's examples of the stitches. Each is 60 pixels square:
Then I grouped them up to make the work quicker:
A couple more images:
A corner being built
I enjoyed making the image. My initial thought was to try and sell these high definition images (up to a metre square) and give some proportion of the profit back to the INAASH Association. I haven't done this yet. Anyone have any ideas about how to go about this without too much outlay?
Hope this might inspire some of you who are Photoshop savvy to try a bit of digital stitching... Keep well Steemians...
PJ
