Series: Stories from beehive front panels
Motif: based on traditional folk motif
Type: Embroidered painting
Technique: Mixed embroidery
Year: 2012 - ongoing
Edition: Unlimited

Size: Small
Dimension: 32 x 14 cm | 12.6 x 5.5 in
Number of stitches: over 150,000
Thread length: over 1.9 km | over 1.2 mi
Thread colours: 19
Development: over 45 person hours

Tailors were from farmers often seen as less capable men, as they weren’t farming for a living like the honest farmers, and their work was deemed inferior. This resulted in a series of satiric motifs in which tailors are depicted as skinny and fearful, easily defeated even by goats.

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