Botanika

I've admired the pattern since I was a child. If you're a Croatian woman, one thing you are taught from a young age is the glory of the pattern.  Flowers, leaves, all manner of plants - primitive beautiful forms. Unlike painting them, these had to be tediously applied to metres and metres of hand woven hemp. Super fine, dense needlework.  I have some of these passed down in my family. They are as striking and perfect today as they were fifty years ago. I've never had the patience for such detailed embroidery - But I have always loved paint.  This reminds me of my grandmothers.