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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