{"product_id":"rustic-barn","title":"Rustic Barn Embroidery Design, Instant Download","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpent a good chunk of time getting the timber-plank texture right on this one and I think its there. The barn is front-on, gambrel roof pitching up steep in the centre, two small square windows either side up in the loft area, and a big set of sliding doors in the middle with the X-brace crossbar detail. Left side has a bare-branched tree in a solid dark silhouette. Right side has a split-rail fence running along the bottom. The whole thing has that vintage engraving quality where every surface has its own directional fill rather than just a flat colour block.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a dense digitise. 1,221 stitches per square inch and the biggest size hits 53,026 stitches total. The barn wall fill uses a horizontal satin pattern with subtle colour banding so the planks catch differently than the roof tiles above them. The roof uses a steeper directional fill pointing down toward the eaves so it reads as proper roofing, not just a dark shape. Only 3 colours in the file but the stitch direction does the heavy lifting to make it look realistic. You wont get this level of texture from a simpler digitise and its why the file sits at the higher complexity tier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts a farmhouse design, full stop. I get messages from people who want this on denim jackets, aprons, kitchen towels and cushions. A customer ordered it last autumn and stitched it on the back of a canvas tote for her local agriculture museum gift shop. She sent photos and the engraving style suited the historical museum vibe better than she expected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest on sturdy woven fabric: denim, canvas, duck cloth, heavy linen. Avoid knit and stretchy fabric completely, the density wont survive the stretch and youll get distortion across the roof lines. Hoop firm with a medium-heavy cutaway stabiliser and run at a slower machine speed for the dense satin sections. Float a layer of topping on any fabric with visible texture or the fill rows will sink into the weave and lose that engraving definition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSizes run 2.71 by 4.49 inches at the smallest up to 5.11 by 8.5 at the largest across 9 options. Use a 40-weight polyester thread in the tan for the barn body and a good dark espresso for the outlines and roof. Dont use cotton thread on the dense sections, it compresses unevenly under that stitch density and the finish looks flat compared to poly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Re Embroidery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45827218505878,"sku":null,"price":4.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/6262\/9270\/files\/RusticBarnMachineEmbroideryDesign.png?v=1762663717","url":"https:\/\/reembroidery.com\/products\/rustic-barn","provider":"Re Embroidery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}