Daniel Clough from Cape Town embroiders graffiti paintings on clothes, sneakers, tennis rackets, jewelry, and even on street fences.
About the page author
Danielle Clough was born, raised and lives to this day in Cape Town (South Africa). Daniel studied art and graphic design before starting to work in the field of creating visual installations that accompany music shows, doing digital design and decorating objects and creating embroidered paintings in graffiti style. Cape Town is known as one of the main cities of street art: graffiti here is not a semi-legal action, but an open way for artists to express themselves. It was the interest in street art, music, and South African street culture that generally led Daniel to find his own style - including with regard to embroidery. All the time left from working as a photographer, designer, creating book covers or broadcasting on a radio site, Danielle spends, "entangled in a mess of multi-colored threads", embroidering anything "from vintage tennis rackets to shoes."
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What is this page about
Despite the fact that Daniel Clough has a lot of activities and hobbies, her Instagram page is almost completely devoted to embroidery.Daniel most often embroider stitch, using a variety of clothes (jeans, jackets, hats), bags and shoes as embellished items, creating embroidered brooches, badges, pictures and paintings, or choosing unusual things as the basis, such as tennis racquets, face masks, finished jewelry or mesh street fences. Her works on the colors used, indeed, resemble street graffiti, sometimes they look like sketches of classic tattoos, and sometimes, precisely with the technique of a “smear” of thread, they are like impressionist canvases.
Who will be interested in this page
You are fond of hand embroidery or machine painting of clothes or quilling, sewing from shreds or knitting from multi-colored threads, home needlework or street art - in short, if you work with color in one way or another and are looking for inspiration and new ideas, you most likely it will be interesting to look through the photos on the Clough blog on Instagram. Her portraits, still lifes, images of flowers, animals, or even movie heroes are an excellent example of the modern look at centuries-old known needlework techniques.
Daniel Clough Instagram Page: @fiance_knowles
