Group photo of astronauts of "Endeavor spacecraft "launched on September 30th 1994.
From left to right, rear row:
Michael A. Baker
Michael A. Baker
Terrence W. Wilcutt
Terrence W. Wilcutt
From left to right, front row:
Steven L. Smith
Steven L. Smith
Daniel W. Bursch
Daniel W. Bursch
Peter J.K. Wisoff
Peter J.K. Wisoff
Thomas Jones
Thomas Jones
Product Name: Mission
Author: Gordon Williams
Completed on: 1995
Collected on: The memorial room at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the United States
Commemorate the 140th anniversary for the foundation of Royal Albert Hall of Arts and Sciences in the UK
Product Name: Sanctuary
Author: Norman Stanley
Completed on: 2007
Collected on: Amphi corridor on the first floor of Albert Music Hall in London, the UK
The location of hanging: The connecting corridor on the third floor of the State room at the south of Buckingham Palace in London, the UK
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Embroidery process
1. Frame: Wire drawing of gold foil wrapped with hard rock maple from America
2. Glass: Glass of museum level with low reflection, high transparency and no coverage
3. Paper jam: Thickened paper made of wood pulp with no acid or phosphorus
4. Embroidery core: The total time of consumption is 102 hours, it is completed by hand making.
Embroidered by manual referring to real photos, upon a comparison, the error rate was only 1.25%.
All works of this brand use full embroidery technique.
Inner diameter of work: 44cm X 56 cm
The work involved about 540,000 artificial needles and 117 man-hours.
This piece of work features abundant and strong color contrast, so there is a longing for a high degree of compaction. The name of the tool held by the technician is: "Long fillet distorted crochet hook".
This crochet hook is 71mm long, the hook line of the front is only 1.5mm long.
(Note: a pound is about 23mm in diameter)
A total of 31 colors of silk threads are used in this work.
The partial position of this work, zoom in the live shot photo.