Embroidered Mandalas
Embroidery, beadwork, photography, and video. Since 2016
We all need reminders of the bigger truths that underpin our daily effort because the odds can seem stacked against us sometimes and the effort can feel futile. The text on the mandalas are personal sayings that help to integrate the paradox of our lives: we must foster an optimistic attitude while we also need to accept great change and loss.
The phrases "The Universe Provides" and "Reabsorbed by the Universe" are beaded within the embroidery, turning the mandalas into linguistic as well as visual meditations on the bounty and balance of the universe.
The Universe Provides, 10 x 10 inches, hand embroidery and beadwork with glass and semiprecious stones on linen, Magda Wojtyra 2017
Reabsorbed by the Universe, 7 x 7 inches, hand embroidery and beadwork with pearls, and glass and semiprecious stones on linen, 2016
Embroidered Mandala Gallery
Embroidered mandalas finished since 2016.
Creative Process and Work-in-Progress
Circular paper grid for a new embroidered mandala.
Circular paper grid to guide embroidery stitches on a geometric mandala.
The experiment mandala with portions of the grid cut out and the start of embroidery.
Detail of the grid that was sewn to the fabric, with some glass beads positioned with pins.
Overall view of the embroidery test, including some pearls on the lower left.
Detail of the embroidery test. The black beads are onyx, an the green beads are glass.
Detailed view of the round paper grid. Hot pink masking tape holds it all together for sewing onto the fabric.
Beads laid out on the embroidered mandala
Halfway through being finished, a mandala with the embroidery all complete is covered with beads that are being considered for the next stage of work.
A tray with a selection of beads and embroidery thread form an unedited palette of materials in the first stage of creating a new mandala. Curious where this leads to? Check out the mandala project page .
Vingtage glass, crystal, semi-precious stone, and ceramic beads collected on travels all over the world.
Seedbeads, size 11 and 16. 16 are truly tiny, a true 1 mm in size on average. These colors have been collected on 3 separate continents.
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