Hand-Embroidered Vintage Salon Scene – Reading Women Series

Description

This mixed-media fiber artwork reworks a vintage black-and-white photograph of women seated beneath salon dryers, absorbed in fashion magazines and newspapers. Subtle hand embroidery brings individuality and humor to each figure: stitched hair-dryer caps, halos, patterned details, and delicate accents that distinguish one woman from the next while maintaining a shared rhythm across the composition.

The repetition of posture and pose contrasts with the intimacy of hand-applied thread, highlighting themes of conformity, self-fashioning, and quiet interior lives. What begins as a static historical image becomes animated through color, texture, and gentle disruption—honoring the communal rituals of beauty while questioning how identity is constructed within them.

Each embroidered detail is placed by hand, making this artwork entirely one of a kind.

Details:

• Original mixed-media textile artwork

• Hand embroidery on printed vintage photograph

• Cotton embroidery floss

• Mounted in a white mat 8″ x 10″

• One of a kind

Ideal for collectors of fiber art, fashion history enthusiasts, and those drawn to narrative work that blends nostalgia, repetition, and subtle subversion.