Chain Stitch Patch

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Recipe

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Updated 10 Aug 2026

Full sentences. Describe the scene, then the medium, then the flaws you want kept in.

This recipe describes a treatment rather than a thing. Put your own subject in and it is added to the end of the prompt.

Prompt

Machine chain stitch embroidery worked directly into coarse dark fabric, the subject described entirely by rows of looping thread sitting proudly above the weave, stitch direction following the form. Two or three thread colours only against a deep flat ground. The fabric fills the entire frame edge to edge with no border, edge or background surface showing. Soft raking light so the thread casts its own shadow. Subject: a bearded wizard head in profile.

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Send the example as an input image to the images.edits endpoint alongside the prompt, or attach it in ChatGPT. It follows composition closely, so describe your subject firmly or it will copy the example.

Recommended settings

Size
1536 x 1024
Quality
High
Background
Opaque
Output
PNG

Tips

  • 1Stitch direction following the form is what makes it read as embroidery.
  • 2Raking light gives the thread its height.
  • 3Fabric to the edges. A visible patch edge turns it into an object photo.

Things to try

Pale ground

thread on cream canvas

One colour

a single thread shade

Denser

the stitching filling more area

Outline only

contour stitched, ground bare

Metallic

a gold thread among the rest

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