When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Damien Mammoliti Nearly every art student groans at the mention of still life painting.

Marie Palmer's desk is covered in a swirl of color — a turquoise sewing machine, boxes overflowing with thread, and acrylic landscape paintings in various states of completion. She sits in her pink ...

Embroidery may not be a new concept, but the use of thread, as a medium of expression, is not as popular as other traditional media. For now, soft and flexible material have come to stay, as artists ...