Needlework art form
OwnerRebecca A. Ellweininventor
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Abstract
A thin foraminous substrate such as a woven fabric substrate, has imprinted thereon a design to accept needlework. A dominant portion of the imprinted design on the substrate is adapted to register with a three dimensional decorative applique, for example, a hand painted ceramic applique representative of a human face or other body part. The three dimensional applique is attached by adhesive to the substrate. Other three dimensional objects may also be applied to the substrate, typical examples being numbers, letters and shapes such as balloons, flowers and geometric designs.
Claims12
A needlepoint art form which can be provided both in kit form as well as a finished product, comprising in combination:
- a needlepoint base in the form of an apertured flexible substrate to which colored needlepoint yarns are applied by needlepoint operations;
- a design imprinted on said base within a marginal outline, said design further including color coded areas serving as guides for correspondingly colored yarns;
- said design further including a predetermined single relatively small but nevertheless visually dominant feature area defining an applique outline which is less than the overall size of said design and which is also to be filled with yarn;
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- a single decorated three dimensional solid applique comprising but a part of said design, formed by molding, sculpturing and the like, and having a perimeter corresponding to the outline of said dominant feature area affixed thereto over said yarn following needlepoint application.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.