Dog Embroideries Use Materials Like Dirt To Illustrate the Hijinks of Active Pups

When I first saw this piece by embroi­dery artist @da_gaemee, I was amazed at the real­ism of it. The dirt looks so life­like. Well, you know what? That dirt is real! In the com­ments of the Insta­gram post, da_gaemee reveals that she mixed sand with glue and then attached it to the fab­ric to cre­ate a sense of vol­ume with­in the piece.

Real dirt isn’t the only non-thread mate­r­i­al the artist uses in her work. Anoth­er piece, fea­tur­ing a torn-up chair, has stuff­ing com­ing out of it, while in a sep­a­rate piece, two stitched pups car­ry a real stick. The sub­tle use of these mate­ri­als, to illus­trate a par­tic­u­lar con­cept, is a clever and play­ful way to craft an embroi­dered work of art.

Fol­low da_gaemee on Insta­gram to see what she’s stitch­ing next.