DMC brand is unequivocally one of the smartest business oriented brand of suppliers of embroidery materials. Not only keeps up with new technology and it's derived business needs, but also keeps up with the customer's younger and younger generations fashion and simplicity needs and makes it affordable!
The Magic Paper- Embroidery Tracing Paper series features in magnified indent designs aimed at very younger generations who embrace bold patterns, urban motifs , statement messages , while hiding flower and fruit patterns suitable for tablecloths and table runners under the cover of the packaging labelled ' DMC'. The young customers keep browsing and going page after page while the designs become more graphic and single coloured, while we the older customers stay behind contemplating vintage flower and fruit patterns that were so much in vogue in the 80's tea towels.
The prices of the paper is equally reasonable considering that dispenses any drawing , any potential mistakes or bad consequences to the fabric as it dissolves in water.
The ready to stitch products prices start on £3.80 , 3 months bib to embroider
Uncertainty about the future and how Cov-19 pandemic made many wonder how to celebrate and perpetuate the memories of their loving ones while they are still alive, plus the lockdown, has led to a tremendous increase of the demand for cross stitch services allowing interaction with the customers.
DMC STITCH YOUR PHOTO services meets this demand by not only providing the photo conversion but also the calculation of threads needed for free if the customer buys the threads from their shop. What a deal!
Though there are many online facilities for free photo conversion to cross stitch, the common social awareness that sending and uploading documents into private free sites can make the user victim of spyware and identity theft, is a strong compelling factor for customers to prefer DMC conversion services to any other random but well advertised free photo conversion service.
If you have enough threads at home and a printer you can just print your loved ones photos on cross stitch graph paper , however bear in mind that the cheapest - though good quality- you can get for 100 pages is £7 while DMC offers free photo conversion to customers included of threads that start at £1 each but further discounts apply.
Graph paper is also available from unknown unsecured sources on Google .But again beware with spyware and bank details identity theft.
Google is also good in connecting everyone with library catalogues and virtual libraries with classic books featuring DMC projects and books as the iconic Needlework Masterpieces by Melinda Coss an author who worked with DMC in the past in the publication of embroidery creative projects.
My favourite book by the author is Needlework Masterpieces: 20 Projects from the World's Greatest Museums published on the 1st of May 1994 by Bulfinch Press.
Here are my favourite project as per photos I took using my mobile,
The Sunflowers Vase by Van Gogh is a painting dated 1888, which print replicas are sold in different sizes and canvas materials by the British National Gallery - also supplying Van Gogh and other artists DMC embroidery kits via amazon.
The National Gallery DMC Art Kits via Amazon also include religious figures, what is quite appropriate for friends or relatives in need of a prayer and "a friend indeed".
The factual reason why DMC and the British National Gallery partnered to bring to live such admired work of art is expressed in one of DMC's past collaborator Mellinda Coss in the Introduction of her book where she states " The fact of the matter is that painted canvases of famous masterpieces have been available from good needlework companies for at least two generations and this is because you have shown an insatiable appetite for stitching them!(… ) I hope that among this collection, you will find an interpretation of your favourite work of art. I hope also that this book provides you with the art of needlepoint and that you pass this skill down to your children and your children's children." in Needlework Masterpieces (1994).
So not surprisingly, DMC, as one of the smartest companies in the business captured this need as a work of art and a fulfilling mission towards the customers inherited traditional heritage of transmitting skills to their descendants and so we have the DMC of today offering STITCH YOUR PHOTO SERVICES and free downloads.
Until next time,
Best wishes,
Ariane
