Floral Skull Line Art Embroidery Design, Gothic Botanical Pattern

Single-colour black outline, 6 sizes, and its a skull made entirely of flowers. Not painted or filled, just clean line work where roses and leaves and trailing botanicals form the actual skull shape. The eye sockets are framed by petals, the cheekbones are leaf clusters, and the forehead has this dense garden of blooms sitting on top. Stitch it in black thread on a cream linen tote and it looks like something you'd find in a proper art print shop.

Runs across 6 sizes, from roughly 2.27 inches up to 6.81 inches wide, so you've got the right size for small pouch pockets up to full front placement on a hoodie. Stitch counts go from 6800 on the smallest to 22546 at the largest. Its all single colour so no colour changes to manage mid-hoop, which honestly makes the whole run a lot faster. I digitised this one in Wilcom EmbroideryStudio, mapping the satin outline paths along the botanical shapes so the density stays consistent even at the bigger sizes.

Press a heavy cutaway behind your fabric because the skull outline depends on clean satin edges without puckering. A topping layer on fleece or French terry helps too. One customer last autumn hooped it on a black canvas tote using white thread and sent a photo. Looks completely different to the classic version and I was genuinely suprised how well the inverted colour reads.

Best stitch results come from medium-weight wovens and canvas. Skip lightweight chiffon or anything thats prone to shifting in the hoop. Back it with tearaway if youre using a stiff denim that can take the tension. Run a test on a scrap first at the 4-inch size if youre unsure about your stabiliser setup.