Our rose collection is based on the work of Pierre-Joseph Redoute. Redoute was an art teacher to Queen Marie Antoinette and both of Napoleon's wives.  Inspired by Empress Josephine's garden at Malmaison in Paris, he painted a wonderful collection of roses "Les Roses" which was printed between 1817 and 1824. Tragically, the original paintings were destroyed in a fire in the Library of the Louvre.

• These designs were digitized from prints of these beautiful flowers
• All of our rose designs sew out flawlessly, with delicate, subtle shading to make them look so real.
• Our roses are so realistic you can almost smell them.
• All embroidery - no applique - just wonderful shading in beautiful rayon threads.
• The help file will include the color chart and photos.

You can download our Austrian Copper Rosebud as a sample of these beautiful flowers.

The rosebud represented here is rosa foetida - Austrian Copper rose