Decorative Feather Silhouette Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Solid black feather silhouette tilted at a soft angle. Upper plumage fills densely with satin column work, forming a pointed leaf shape thats heavy n rich looking. Lower quill end breaks open into delicate filigree swirls and tiny curl flourishes, kinda like a calligraphy nib doodle. Top half reads bold ink stamp, bottom half reads paper cut filigree.

my embroidery software built this in one black thread but mixed two distinct stitch types in the file. The dense plumage uses tight satin columns with directional stitching following the barb angle. Filigree scrollwork at the base runs as single line satin, almost zero fill, just spirals n curls. One colour total, zero colour changes, 8 trims across the size range. Smallest run logs 2,545 stitches on the 3 inch size and the count rises to 8,442 by the time you hit 7 inches across. Density logs around 257 which is light to medium, sits well on most cottons.

I get messages from gothic stationery shop owners and witchy aesthetic sellers about this silhouette. One customer last october picked up the 5 inch run to use on halloween linen table runners, she said the dainty quill end caught the candlelight n the heavy plumage gave the runner a real ornate weight. Top half plumage is where the density lives, those curls at the base barely cost any stitch count and they wont add real run time either.

Stitch on cream linen, charcoal cotton, oatmeal canvas, or burgundy velvet for a moody piece. Black thread reads ink stamp clean on every one of em. Try gold metallic thread if youre doing a halloween or victorian piece, the curl base sings with metallic. Skip jersey or anything stretchy, dense plumage will pucker if the cloth pulls. Mount a medium grade cutaway underneath the satin section especially, it stops the columns from rolling at the edge. Hoop tight, the contrast between filled top n airy bottom shows distortion easy and its hard to mask after the fact. Reach out if the trims between curls misbehave on your machine, ill optimise the path quick.