"Assisi Embroidery also known as Voided Work. Voided work is any embroidery where the design is left open and unworked and the surrounding area is worked to create a "void". Assisi embroidery is one such style of this work." See Tanja Berlin's site for more details at http://www.berlinembroidery.com/assisirabbits.htm
There is also another example of this Assasi style embroidery on Robin Berry's site at http://www.bayrose.org/needlework/Voided_Work_Rabbits.html
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