Artworks · Lissy Funk

Sankt Valentin (Saint Valentine)

1996 · Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen, rayon, silk, wool, and metal-foil-wrapped cotton in padded satin stitches; laid work and couching

22.8 × 21.5 cm (9 × 8 1/2 in.)

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1987 · Linen, plain weave; backed with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with linen and cotton in back and padded overcast stitches; a variety of laid work and couching; coiling

25.6 × 14.2 cm (10 1/8 × 5 5/8 in.)

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1987 · Linen, plain weave; embroidered with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, hemp, silk, and cotton in a variety of laid work and couching with overcast and buttonhole bars

43.2 × 19.2 cm (17 × 7 1/2 in.)

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1987 · Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk yarns in back, buttonhole, darning, overcast, padded overcast; Roumanian, running, satin, and stem stitches; a variety of laid work and couching

19.7 × 14 cm (7 3/4 × 5 1/2 in.)

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1987 · Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk, hemp, cotton, horsehair, and silver beads in detached buttonhole, detached trammed buttonhole, and bullion knot stitches; a variety of laidwork and couching, buttonhole and overcast bars; coiling in lazy squaw stitch; appliquéd with linen, plain weave; embroidered in overcast stitches; beaded

16.8 × 17.5 cm (6 5/8 × 6 7/8 in.)

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1987 · Linen, plain weave; embroidered with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk, and silk in laidwork and couching

21.3 × 18.7 cm (8 3/8 × 7 3/8 in.)

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1987 · Linen, plain weave; embroidered with silk floss and cotton threads in buttonhole stitches; laidwork and couching

16.7 × 10.8 cm (6 5/8 × 4 1/4 in.)

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Das andere Land (The Other Land)

1986 · Linen, plain weave; embroidered with linen, wool, silk, horsehair, hemp, and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in open buttonhole filling and stem stitches; laid work and couching

207 × 335 cm (81 1/2 × 131 7/8 in.)

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Wie das Gras (Like the Grass)

1977 · Linen, plain weave; backed with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk and linen and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in stem, satin, long and short, padded satin and variations on buttonhole stitches; French knots; laid work and couching; glass beads

207.3 × 255.3 cm (81 5/8 × 100 1/2 in.)

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La Matinata (Morning Song)

1975 · Linen, plain weave; underlaid with cotton, plain weave; embroidered with linen, silk, and cotton in padded satin, satin and stem stitches; laid work and couching

184.1 × 154.3 cm (72 1/2 × 60 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago