Embroidery artist shares 80-hour Dartmoor aerial landscape in progress
Victoria Rose Richards posts detailed embroidery of Dartmoor inspired by aerial photography, with 30 more hours planned.
What to know
- An embroidery artist has invested 80 hours in a Dartmoor landscape that mimics aerial photography, with 30 hours remaining—a significant technical and artistic undertaking.
- The work draws comparison to professional mapping and ortho-photogrammetry tools, with commenters highlighting unusual skill in translating satellite imagery into fiber art.
- Commenters include professional embroiderers, map specialists, and people inspired to begin the craft themselves, indicating both technical and motivational resonance.
This is exceptional technical and artistic work that deserves recognition and should be seen in finished form.
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“I've never seen anything like it. It's an amazing piece of work!”
brianm822.bsky.social · Bluesky ↗
This work is inspiring and makes people want to learn or practice embroidery and similar crafts.
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“This is incredibly beautiful and inspiring. I've nursed a desire to do embroidery for years.. decades… I think it's time I started to learn.”
jayavant.bsky.social · Bluesky ↗
Victoria Rose Richards Embroidery artist
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Commenters praise technical skill and conceptual originality
The post generated immediate positive response from Bluesky users, with commenters highlighting the detail level, creative approach, and comparison to professional aerial photography and mapping tools.
“As a person that worked with maps and aerial photography, let me offer a sincere 'wow' to that. It's brilliant and unusual.”
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Absolutely beautiful! My goodness, that really cool! My dissertation was on 19th c African Canadian landscape painting, so I like to think I’m an authority 😅 Good luck!
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Awesome. I can't wait to see it when it's completed.
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That is just all-around awesome! Great idea, wonderfully detailed , and beautiful work.
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Victoria Rose Richards posts 80-hour embroidery of Dartmoor landscape
An embroidery artist shared an aerial landscape inspired by Dartmoor on Bluesky, noting it represents 80 hours of work with approximately 30 hours remaining. The artist is still deciding whether to add slope to the tor area.
“80 hours of embroidery! This aerial landscape is directly inspired by Dartmoor and I'd say I have another 30-ish hours to go?”
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80 hours of embroidery! This aerial landscape is directly inspired by Dartmoor and I'd say I have another 30-ish hours to go? I'm now starting to fill in the fields for the sheep, the tor area will be done last as I'm still deciding whether I want a slope or not 😅 I hope you like it! #art
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I love seeing process photos. I am amazed by all the details you get in, and seeing how you make it is just fascinating. Your work is really beautiful!
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This is seriously impressive. 80 hours is a huge amount of work, and the detail really shows. What inspired you to choose this particular view of Dartmoor?
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This is absolutely amazing. Its such an exciting, unique and gorgeous work of art. Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful creation and for igniting the creative spark I needed for my next project.
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Honestly that is looking really good so far. It's like a full on map you would see on Google earth with it's level of detail.
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isso é INSANIDADE eu quero muito ter as manhas pra fazer um desses um dia!
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REMINDS ME OF FRIEND OF MINE WHO WORKED IN TIMBER INDUSTRY HE SAID HE FUCKING HATED HIS BOSS BUT THEY GOT TO USE THEM LIE DAR RADARS FROM THE PLANES AND THEY MADE PICTURES LIKE THAT .. YOU GOTTA SEE IT TO BELIEVE IT . LOL
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This is incredibly beautiful and inspiring. I’ve nursed a desire to do embroidery for years.. decades… I think it’s time I started to learn.
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As a fan of maps this is just absolutely amazing. I'm very impressed 😍
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I think you should add a Dartmoor Prison escapee wandering lost on the moor there. (lived in Princetown for a short spell in the 90s)
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This is wonderful! You could give the illusion of sloped terrain with shading, but you could also 3D print or sculpt the tor feature.
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I sell them as this is my job (embroidery artist 😁)
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Haha, no, that would be Princetown and this one wasn't inspired by that part. But it has been suggested before!
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I embroider, too, and this is magnificent.
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What do you do with these when you complete them?
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Have you got the prison in there? Sorry, I read a lot of mysteries.
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This is amazingly creative. An elevation change would be really cool. I used to analyze ortho photogrammetry in a past job and the realism you've created is remarkable.
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That is, put simply, quite extraordinary! I've never seen anything like it It's an amazing piece of work! 👏
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And the Hound? Where will you hide the Hound?
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Astonishing! Immediately made me want to make one of my favourite wild places.