Indian Arun Kumar Bajaj boasts a phenomenal skill in creating incredible embroidered paintings. I just can't believe that they are made with a conventional sewing machine: their level of detail is such that from a distance they look like hyperrealistic paintings.
Arun Kumar has been drawing well since childhood and dreamed of becoming a famous artist. But when he turned 15, the sudden death of his father canceled all plans. The boy had to drop out of school to do family business.
In many countries, there are long traditions of creating tapestries and embroidered paintings, but Arun Kumar became the first person to create embroidery of this level of detail on a conventional sewing machine.
"I've been writing on a typewriter for 23 years, since I was 12," the 35—year-old artist told Indian journalists. — My father, a tailor, died early, so I had to leave school to do his business. But I was able to combine these two arts."
One of the most impressive works of the Needle Man was an impressive embroidered canvas with the image of Krishna. It took the artist 3 years and approximately 2840 kilometers of threads to create this work measuring 183 by 122 cm. Also among his works is an embroidered painting of the court of Maharaja of Punjab Ranjit Singh, which depicts approximately 2,000 human figures. It took the artist about a year to create it.
"There is no room for error in my work: if the seam falls on the fabric, it can no longer be removed. I usually don't do embroidery in several layers, so it looks neater."
Arun Kumar continues to be engaged in the sewing business at the Adalat Bazaar in the city of Patiala in northern India, but also devotes a lot of time to art.
Another reminder that if you think you can do something well, you should remember that somewhere there is an Asian who does it better
Arun Kumar Bajaj has a very unusual skill – he can paint with a sewing machine. Technically, it’s embroidering, not painting, but his artworks are so incredibly detailed that they could pass as hyper-realistic paintings to the untrained eye. And the fact that he does it all with a sewing machine...
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Think I'll stick with the all green log cabin squares in a size that would be all green leafy. Somebody out there who needs a quilt for an Irish newborn might like the all leafy green one. I have plenty of green strips to make more than one quilt but will likely just make another quick one and have already sewn 18 q.5-inch pairs in the centers. Oh time flies and will go to the kitchen to make lunch. Happy weekend, all.
Most of these little gems likely took 50 hours or more hours to complete. Oh, yes, at the bottom of this page, there is one made with multicolor pastels that are so beautiful, and I've never seen that many colors in one variegated threads, and their colors are still so pretty! Lucky whoever bought the lot of these potholders. It's a treasure.
