Needlepoint  -  finished or do it yourself  'stitch by number' kit.
Charted pattern with 32 shades.  Kit includes everything but canvas.
From your photograph or from our catalogue of finished pieces.
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The company name is based on the 9th elegy, Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke, as translated by CF MacIntyre
Praise the world to the angel, not the unutterable world;
you cannot astonish him with your glorious feelings;
in the universe, where he feels more sensitively, you're just a beginner.
Therefore, show him the simple thing that is shaped in passing from
father to son, that lives near our hands and eyes as our very own. 
Tell him about the Things...Show him how happy a thing can be.
 
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
216 columns by 144 rows images from Wikimedia Commons
18pt canvas
12" wide by 8"
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
kit price $ 720 ready to frame

 $ 5620

 framed $ 6020
Ansel Adams - The Tetons and the Snake River
348 columns by 278 rows image from Wikimedia Commons
18pt canvas Ansel Adams The Tetons and the Snake River (1942)
19.3" wide by 15.4" This image is available from the Archival Research Catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration under the ARC Identifier 519904.
32 shades hand dyed wool Ansel Adams took this photograph while employed by the United States Government
   
   
kit price $ 2250 ready to frame $ 17,570 framed $ 18,170
2011 California State Fair
1st place
Best of Division
Best of Show
Golden Needlers Award
 
St Francis
190 columns x 400 rows image from Wikimedia Commons

Description Painting of Saint Francis, Convent of Greccio Date May 2006 Source Own work (Own photo) Author Gunnar Bach Pedersen

 
10.6" x 22.2"
18 pt canvas
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
Nicholas Black Elk
126 Columns by 137 rows image from Wikimedia Commons

Nicholas Black Elk and his wife and daughter circa 1890-1910
18pt canvas
7" x 7.6"
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
Ohiyesa
Dr Charles Alex Eastman
  image from Wikimedia Commons

Dr. Charles Alex Eastman - Ohiyesa (The winner)

April 1897

Glass negatives of Indians, collected by the bureau of American Ethnology

http://sirismm.si.edu/naa/baegn/gn_03462a.jpg
18pt canvas
 
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
John Trumbull - Declaration of Independence - detail

original 12'x18' oil on canvas

commissioned in 1817; purchased in 1819; placed in rotunda in 1826

There are 47 figures in this painting.  I intend to work all 47 into a sequence of needlepoints over the next number of years.

Committee of 5
432 columns by 339 rows image from Wikimedia Commons
18 pt canvas Detail of painting by John Trumbull, 1819, depicting the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the congress.  The original hangs in the US Capitol rotunda.
finished size: 24" wide by 18.8" high left to right:  John Adams-Massachusets, Roger Sherman-Connecticut, Robert R Livingston-New York, Thomas Jefferson-Virginia, Benjamin Franklin-Pennsylvania
32 shades hand dyed wool There are 47 founding fathers in the painting and all 47 are tagged in the wikimedia image.
 

finished 2/15/2011

 John Trumbull - Declaration of Independence - detail left left
Detail
300 columns by 150 rows image from Wikimedia Commons
18 pt canvas Detail of painting by John Trumbull, 1819,   The original hangs in the US Capitol rotunda.
finished size: 16.7" wide by 8.3" high George Wythe-Virginia, William Whipple-New Hampshire, Josiah Bartlett-New Hampshire, Thomas Lynch Jr-South Carolina, Benjamin Harrison V-Virginia
32 shades hand dyed wool There are 47 founding fathers in the painting and all 47 are tagged in the wikimedia image.
 

 
 

 John Trumbull - Declaration of Independence - detail left center
Detail
498 columns by 150 rows image from Wikimedia Commons
18 pt canvas Detail of painting by John Trumbull, 1819,   The original hangs in the US Capitol rotunda.
finished size: 27.7" wide by 8.3" high Richard Henry Lee-Virginia, Samuel Adams-Massachusetts, George Clinton-New York, Thomas Heyward Jr-South Carolina, Charles Carroll-Massachusetts, George Walton-Georgia, Robert Morris-Pennsylvania, Thomas Willing - Pennsylvania, Benjamin Rush-Pennsylvania
32 shades hand dyed wool
 

 
John Trumbull - Declaration of Independence - detail left right
Detail
435 columns by 111 rows image from Wikimedia Commons
18 pt canvas Detail of painting by John Trumbull, 1819,   The original hangs in the US Capitol rotunda.
finished size: 24.2" wide by 6.2" high from left:  Elbridge Gerry, Robert Treat Paine, Abraham Clark, William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, James Wilson, Francis Hopkinson
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
John Trumbull - Declaration of Independence - detail left top left
Detail
388 columns by 135 rows image from Wikimedia Commons
18 pt canvas Detail of painting by John Trumbull, 1819,   The original hangs in the US Capitol rotunda.
finished size: 21.6" wide by 7.5" high from left:  William Paca, Samual Chase, Lewis Morse, William Floyd, Arthur Middleton
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
John Trumbull - Declaration of Independence - detail left top right
Detail
200 columns by 126 rows image from Wikimedia Commons
18 pt canvas Detail of painting by John Trumbull, 1819,   The original hangs in the US Capitol rotunda.
finished size:  11.1" x 7" from left:  Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, George Clymer
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
John Trumbull - Declaration of Independence - detail right right
Detail
250 columns by 160 rows image from Wikimedia Commons
18 pt canvas Detail of painting by John Trumbull, 1819,   The original hangs in the US Capitol rotunda.
finished size:  13.9" x 8.9" from left:  Charles Thompson, John Hancock, George Reed, John Dickinson, Edward Rutledge, Thomas McKean, Phillip Livingston
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
John Trumbull - Declaration of Independence - detail right top
Detail
350 columns by 100 rows image from Wikimedia Commons
18 pt canvas Detail of painting by John Trumbull, 1819,   The original hangs in the US Capitol rotunda.
finished size:  19.4" x 5.6" from left:  Richard Stockton, Francis Lewis, John Witherspoon, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
Emily Dickinson needlepoint portrait
  Emily Dickinson
188 columns by 216 rows
18pt canvas
10.4" wide by 12"
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
image from Wikimedia Commons
Created by William C. North, between December 10, 1846 and late March 1847 (source: Mary Elizabeth Kromer Bernhard, "Lost and Found: Emily Dickinson’s Unknown Daguerreotypist," The New England Quarterly 72:4 (December 1999), pp. 594-601; cited in [1])
Published on May 28, 1932, in Letters of Emily Dickinson (new edition by Mabel Loomis Todd).
The daguerreogue is currently located at Amherst College.
Source of this image: University of Illinois at at Urbana-Champaign, to be specific [2]
 
kit price $ 870 ready to frame

 $ 7345

 framed $ 7645

 
Ralph Waldo Emerson
108 columns by 144 rows image from Wikimedia Commons
18pt canvas
6" wide by 8"
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
kit price $ 360 ready to frame

 $ 2810

 framed $ 3110
Ella Grace Goodenough

my fathers grandmother
150 columns by 200 rows
18pt canvas
8.3" wide by 11.1"
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
2011 Contra Costa County Fair
1st place
Best of show
Judges Favorite
Thomas Jefferson
18pt canvas
126 columns by 126 rows
7"x7"
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
image from Wikimedia Commons
Thomas Jefferson painting by Charles Wilson Peale
Date:  1791
Author:  Charles Wilson Peale
 
 
kit price $ 360 ready to frame

 $ 2810

 framed $ 3110
Abraham Lincoln needlepoint portrait
Abraham Lincoln 
108 columns by 144 rows
18pt canvas
6" wide by 8"
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
image from Wikimedia Commons
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID cph.3a53289
Date:  1863 Nov. 8
Author:  Alexander Gardner (1821-1882)
 
kit price $ 360 ready to frame

 $ 2810

 framed $ 3110
 
Abraham Lincoln 
48 columns by 64 rows
18pt canvas
2.7" wide by 3.6"
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
image from Wikimedia Commons
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID cph.3a53289
Date:  1863 Nov. 8
Author:  Alexander Gardner (1821-1882)
 
kit price $ 180 ready to frame

$ 595

 framed $ 795

 
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln 
270 columns by 360 rows
18pt canvas
15" wide by 20"
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
image from Wikimedia Commons
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division under the digital ID cph.3a53289
Date:  1863 Nov. 8
Author:  Alexander Gardner (1821-1882)
   
2011 California State Fair
3rd place
 
kit price $ 2250 ready to frame

$ 17,570

 framed $ 18,170
 
Abraham Lincoln 
48 columns by 64 rows
24pt canvas
2.0" wide by 2.6"
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
Description:  one of the last photographs of Abraham Lincoln

Source:  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a11367

Date:  5 Feb 1865 or 10 Apr 1865

Author:  Alexander Gardner
 
kit price $ 180 ready to frame

$ 595

 framed $ 795
Abraham Lincoln
108 columns by 144 rows
18pt canvas
6" wide by 8"
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
image from Wikimedia Commons
Abraham Lincoln half length seated
One of the last photographs of Abraham Lincoln
Date:  5 Feb 1865 or 10 Apr 1865
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a11367
Author:  Alexander Gardner
 
   
 
 
kit price $ 360 ready to frame

$ 2810

 framed 3110
Barack Obama needlepoint portrait
Barack Obama
108 columns by 144 rows
18pt canvas
6" wide by 8"
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
image from Wikimedia Commons
Official presidential portrait of Barack Obama taken shortly before he
assumed office.
Date: 13 Jan 2009
Author:  Pete Souza, The Obama-Biden Transistion Team
http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/new_official_portrait_released/
   
 
 
kit price $ 360 ready to frame

$ 2810

 framed 3110
George  Washington
108 columns by 144 rows
18pt canvas
6" wide by 8"
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
image from Wikimedia Commons
Artist:  Peale, Rembrandt
Title:  George Washington
Year:  1795 - 1823
Technique:  Oil on Canvas
English: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Source the-athenaeum.org
 
kit price $ 360 ready to frame

 $ 2810

 framed $3110
John Wesley
108 columns by 144 rows
18pt canvas
6" wide by 8"
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
image from Wikimedia Commons
Artist:  John Faber
Year:  1730 - 1756
 
kit price $360 ready to frame

 $2810

 framed $3110
     
Walt Whitman needlepoint portrait
 
Walt Whitman
108 columns by 144 rows
18pt canvas
6" wide by 8"
32 shades hand dyed wool
 
 
image from Wikimedia Commons
Source Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.00752. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH82- 137
Date:  between 1855 and 1865
Author:  [?] Brady, Mathew
Date of birth/death ca. 1823 15 January or 16 Jan 1896
Location of birth/death Warren County, New York New York City
Work period 1844 - ca. 1887
Work location:  New York City and Washington, D.C.
kit plrice $ 360 ready to frame

$ 2810

 framed $ 3110
kit contents
instructions on canvas stretching and initial grid lines
instructions and tips
sizing - how much detail
Photograph damage correction
how to order
 
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