Dark Indigo

North Carolina-based artist Yumi Okita creates stunning fabric moths, butterflies and other assortment of insects using embroidery techniques on textures textiles to replicate the living specimens. The colorful and soft creatures are a domestic version of the original, where the artist ventures outside the evolutionary boundaries and gives the insects her own touch of brilliant jewel tones, using a varied selection of thread and yarn to bring about the desired effect, if not true to nature, then in tribute to her imagination.

The artist sells her larger than life size textile sculptures, where she expertly interweaves thread, fur, feather, wire fabric, cotton and many more elements to form the figure on Etsy.