Realistic food art experienced a true boom in recent years, and Youmeng Liu came up with the most unique way to embrace this craze. She’s using her skills as an embroidery artist to stitch together incredibly realistic food embroideries that look just as tasty as the real thing.
Liu has a MA in Fashion Artifact from the London College of Fashion, and her passion for embroidery started blooming during a trip to Dali, China, a decade ago. She fell in love with punch needle embroidery during this journey and recently embarked on a quest to produce 301 embroidered artworks of common edible food items.
Liu developed her own technique of 3D punch needle embroidery, using her skills for hand embroidery and scissors sculpting to make her artworks truly pop. It’s a time-consuming process because her creations feature a lot of intricate details and can take weeks to finish, but she’s enjoying every second of her creative journey.
“I enjoyed the process to sculpt the embroidery with my scissors, with different angles and depths of each cut giving different textures. The most enjoyable part is when I touch the texture of a finished piece which gives me a pleasant and comfortable feeling,” she told The Sun.
