Sue's Korean Embroidery Project

Cabinet, originally uploaded by tgolamb.

Sue has finally completed what turned out to be a four year project. She has been working on some Korean embroidery panels to be built into four especially designed wood cabinets since she first came to America in 2001. The one you see above is the largest of the four.

I am especially proud of her efforts on this, because this kind of embroidery is painstaking work of weaving one silk thread at a time into the pictures on silk material for each panel section. All of the shading on each of the pictures is done with different color silk thread, giving the images a 3-dimensional look. Once finished, each panel must be sealed on the back in preparation for the cabinet work.

Because we are about to return to the USA, it was important for her to complete all of her embroidery work before we left. Now that all of the panels were completed, we took the finished work to a local business that specialized in this kind of Korean art form, where he cut up the embroidry into the individual panels and built them into the cabinet you see.

Embroidery, originally uploaded by tgolamb.

Here is a closeup of Sue's embroidery handiwork. It is much more beautiful in person than in this photo, and you can get a better appreciation of the thousands of hours it took her to do it all. Even though this was more of a hobby project and a personal goal to accomplish, the woman at the business that specializes in this kind of art form gave Sue high compliments for the professionalism of her ability. This added an extra exclamation point to the completion of this job for her, and I am thrilled at her dedication to getting it all done.