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Victoria Rose Richards

@aerialembroidery.bsky.social

I make aerial embroidery landscapes 🧵✈ Queer, autistic and obsessed with green! They/them or other neutral pronouns are preferred. All my current and previous work is on my site: https://linktr.ee/aerialembroidery

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Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 22h ago

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.
Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 2d ago

30 hours of sewing so far... lots and lots of French knots but some of the grass areas are now being filled too! If you didn't see the first post, this is an aerial embroidery inspired by moorlands. At this point I still can't estimate how long it'll take in full but I'm not half way yet 😊🌱

An embroidery hoop containing a work in progress of an aerial landscape. It has mid-green knot trees and light green areas of grass between. It has sketches of roads and trees for guiding future stitches.
Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · last wk.

The start of a new large aerial embroidery landscape! It'll be a French knot-heavy project inspired by moorlands with more muted, moody colours. As you can see from the marks, I don't have a concrete plan... somewhat deciding what I want to include as I go. This is the first 10 hours of work!

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Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · last wk.

Sorry, I went MIA for a month on here... the heatwave made me feel very ill and then I had a mental health relapse and ended up avoiding social media since early July. I'm back on my SSRIs now and feeling much more myself again!! Much clearer and ready to be back online (see thread) 1/3 ...

An embroidery hoop containing an aerial view landscape of agricultural fields. They have deep green knot fields and satin stitch grass and cut ones.
Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Holkham beach, Norfolk - I was commissioned by someone to replicate this beautiful beach and all its shades and textures as an aerial embroidery! Lots of grasses, reeds and mud mixed in with the sand. Not sure if the tide in coming on or going out though... More close-ups are in the thread: 1/2

An embroidered aerial view landscape of a beach, with fields framing the bottom edges and water to the top. the beach has different shades of gold, brown and dull greens for different textures and elements.An angled view of an embroidered aerial view landscape. It depicts a beach scene with different shades of gold and brown.An angled view of an embroidered aerial view landscape. It depicts a beach scene with different shades of gold and brown.
Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've added my orchard and allotment themed landscape into a hoop frame I've had for a long while and I love how it looks! I think I may have to sell this aerial embroidery along with it, I think its such a perfect match for the landscape 😊 what do you think?

An aerial-view embroidered landscape displayed in a wooden frame. The landscape depicts an apple orchard in bloom surrounded by trees, with fields and sheep to the bottom right and a vegetable allotment to the left.An aerial-view embroidered landscape displayed in a wooden frame. The landscape depicts an apple orchard in bloom surrounded by trees, with fields and sheep to the bottom right and a vegetable allotment to the left.An aerial-view embroidered landscape depicting an apple orchard in bloom surrounded by trees, with fields and sheep to the bottom right and a vegetable allotment to the left. An old train track runs across the top.
Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)

An embroidery hoop containing an aerial view embroidered landscape. It depicts the BARC in Maryland with green and brown field plots and a building area in the bottom right corner.A zoomed-in angled view of an aerial embroidery. It shows field plots and buildings.A zoomed-in angled view of an aerial embroidery. It shows field plots and buildings.
Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'Beltsville Agricultural Research Centre', Maryland - I was privately commissioned to memorialise the BARC by a past employee after learning it will be shut down by the USDA after over 100 years of research. They wanted to focus of this aerial embroidery to be the field plots... 1/3 (see thread)

An embroidery hoop containing an aerial view embroidered landscape. It depicts the BARC in Maryland with green and brown field plots and a building area in the bottom right corner.A zoomed-in angled view of an aerial embroidery. It shows field plots and buildings.A zoomed-in angled view of an aerial embroidery. It shows field plots and buildings.
Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 3mo ago

'The heather and the hills' - close-ups of my newest aerial embroidery, combining knitting for the base again! Summer heathers, sheep and ponies dot this wild landscape... it won't be available until I made a little frame for it but I have more photos to put up in a couple days :)

An angled view of a mixed media landscape, with a knitted wool base and embroidered purple heather bushes between 3D hills.An angled edge-on view of an aerial-view mixed media landscape. The base is sewn with marled wool and embroidered with heather bushes and fluffy trees.An angled view of a mixed media landscape, with a knitted wool base and embroidered purple heather bushes between 3D hills.
Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thank you so much for all the love for this spring landscape! It means a lot to me :) I'm proud of how my aerial embroideries have evolved and developed of the years, I think this piece is a good representation of it 🌸🌱🌷

Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 4mo ago

'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It depicts an apple orchard in bloom in the centre, allotments to the left and sheep in their field at the bottom. Train tracks go past the top of the orchard and allotment.
Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 4mo ago

'A simple (perfect) life' - my spring landscape is finally finished! An apple orchard in bloom, old railway, sheep with their lambs and an allotment being prepared for growing :) Zoom in to see all the other tiny details too... I think this might be my favourite aerial embroidery I've ever done!

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It depicts an apple orchard in bloom in the centre, allotments to the left and sheep in their field at the bottom. Train tracks go past the top of the orchard and allotment.Sewn train tracks past an apple orchard (to the left).An angled view of a sewn vegetable allotment surrounded by rough land, trees and with train tracks to the left.An angled view of embroidered bushes and paths going through them leading to an orchard, allotment and fields.
Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My apple orchard in bloom... and rusty old train tracks above it! This is my first time doing tracks on an aerial embroidery and I'm pretty happy with the effect; the flowering trees were a chore but I'm happy with them too! The last element to add is the allotment to the left 🥕🥬🌱 #landscape

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape of an apple orchard in bloom. The trees have white and pink flowers with lots of small knots around the outside of the orchard to create texture.An embroidered aerial view of an apple orchard in full bloom. The ground is highly textured in shades of green with a dirt path snaking through.An embroidered aerial view of an apple orchard and old rusty train tracks. The orchard has white flowers blooming, with pink cherry blossoms the opposite side of the tracks.
Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My current aerial embroidery landscape in progress... a spring apple orchard closely inspired by one close to where I grew up in Devon! The area to the left will be an allotment 🥕🍅🥬 I'm so glad spring is finally here!! I went to the local pond this morning and watched the tadpoles swimming around :)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape in progress, with large fluffy trees and small bushes made from knots.
Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Combining knitting with my aerial embroidery... I knitted a base, which was then attached and sewn over to create a wild meadow 🌱🌼 the first of hopefully a series of landscape experiments using this method! I wanted to create more variety than my usual cotton bases. Zoom in to see the flowers :)

A small embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. The landscape depicts a wild meadows surrounded by trees - the main central base is knitted from green wool.An embroidered wild meadow surrounded by trees - the main central base is knitted from green wool and dotted with embroidered flowers.An embroidered wild meadow surrounded by trees - the main central base is knitted from green wool and dotted with embroidered flowers.
Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 6mo ago

'Island Lake, California' - an aerial embroidery commission from last September I haven't shared yet! The right hand side was a nightmare at times, very busy with textures and elements and odd shapes. I hope it came out effective though? I don't have much experience in rocky landscapes :)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It depicts a wild scene with lakes, mountains, and an earth/rock area to the right. Lots of trees dot the landscape.An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. It depicts a wild scene with lakes, mountains, and an earth/rock area to the right. Lots of trees dot the landscape.A sewn aerial view landscape showing lakes, mountains, trails and an earth/rock area to the right. Lots of trees dot the landscape.
Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In your opinions, what are the best photo-based social media alternatives to Instagram for creators, artists and/or small businesses? I feel like my Insta account is near dead so I need to be looking at other sites too outside of Meta (I'll still be on here!)

A person holding a giant embroidery hoop, which contains a sewn aerial view landscape. The landscape depicts moorlands, fields and rivers.
Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Futuristic desert cityscape or an abstract exploding clock? Or something else?? It was meant to be an experiment of the former using old clock, watch and hard drive bits I have but my parents say it looks like the latter 😅 it was curious to try a new media for aerial landscapes though! #art

An embroidery hoop containing a orange felt base with clock and watch parts attached in an abstract fashion.An embroidery hoop containing a orange felt base with clock and watch parts attached in an abstract fashion.An embroidery hoop containing a orange felt base with clock and watch parts attached in an abstract fashion.