Although I’ve seen leaf embroidery before, what’s so striking about the works of Laura Dalla Vecchia is the precise detail of her work. Much leaf embroidery looks simple because leaves are quite fragile, but Vecchia, a Spanish artist who lives in Brazil, uses the medium as perfectly as you might expect to see on fabric.
She specializes in images of birds native to Brazil, as you can see on her Instagram page. Most birds, like this toucan, are perched on branches. The branches themselves are tiny twigs sewn onto the leaves. This gives the images a three-dimensional pop to them.
-via My Modern Met