Giant Kawakawa Leaf – Cathy Jane Designs

‘Giant Kawakawa Leaf’  Embroidery threads and silk artwork by Cathy Jane Designs
Made up of hundreds and thousands of tiny stitches and sculpted onto pins.

Dimensions: Height 66cm x width 66cm x 4cm depth.
Professionally framed using a white boxed frame and high grade glass. This offers ultimate clarity, with reduced reflection, and has 99% UV protection from the sun.

Artists statement

The Kawakawa tree is commonly found throughout New Zealand and is well known to the Maori for its long history of medicinal use. The heart shaped leaves are boiled in a pot to create a herbal tonic.  The embroidery shows the common holes left by the cheeky nocturnal caterpillar that feasts on it at night.