One of my best friends just presented me with this beautiful hand embroidered oak leaf. Simply a marvelous job! Here is the description of the design as reproduced from the place she got it from -

“This hand embroidery design is worked in detached chain stitch on hand dyed fabric leaving just the area of the leaf un-stitched. This design technique is described as the voided shape technique where the image itself is not stitched but the surrounding area is.

A variety of yarns were used including commercially dyed stranded cottons, hand dyed stranded cottons and rayon threads.”

What really amazed me was the way in which the leaf seems to emerge from the background and the clarity of the veins of the leaf design, which were a cut above the rest.