Couple Uses Embroidery to Immortalize European Architecture

Charles Henry and Elin Petronella, a Franco-Swedish couple, travel across Europe in search of the continent’s finest architectural achievements. From the colorful streets of Copenhagen to the modernist architecture of Barcelona, each project symbolizes or highlights a part of history and is later immortalized in embroidery.

To this day, Charles and Elin’s ever-growing collection consists of textile versions of popular monuments such as Gaudí’s Casa Batllo, in which each colorful mosaic is reproduced with a variety of embroidery stitches. Other creations present contours of streets in a black thread while the central subject stands out for its colors: a London telephone booth in its emblematic red hue, the Lisbon tramway in yellow etc.

For those who wish to reproduce these creations, the scheme of Charles and Elin’s embroidery is provided in PDF format on their site.

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I remember when we released our first online course as if it was yesterday. It was the beginning of 2018 and @_charleshenry_ and I were living in the South West of France and had just started working full time with our art. We were nerve wracked of how it would turn out. Would we make it? Would people like our course? . Today more than 100 creatives have taken the Les Volcans Masterclass alone (The design you see in the picture). It's incredible and has motivated us to create a stronger foundation for more courses to come, which is what you can see with charlesandelinacademy.com 🍀 . Even though we've come far on the outside it's still just as nerve wracking on the inside even though we know that our content is of high value. I think it will always be like this regardless of the situation. The biggest lesson we've learnt by experience is that you will never succeed unless you give it a full-hearted try and dare to do mistakes ❤ . During the first hours of the launch, we had a price bug that prevented purchases to come through properly, thankfully it has all been fixed and the real bundle price of $79 (not $179) is now up and running through the end of the launch on Sunday! . So if you've ever thought of trying out embroidery, NOW is the perfect time to do it. You can access the courses via the link in my profile @petronella.art ☺️ . I would love to hear your experiences of being nervous of how your content will be received!?🙏🏻

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