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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 139339, member: 55"]Adding my two cents. I think the design appears to be painted on, or printed.</p><p>In the close-up showing the birds head, the white areas do not seem to follow any of the stitches in the fabric; they just cut across them. And looking at the back, it appears that the dark-colored areas have bled onto the back a bit, but the back of the dark areas is still mostly white; that would be hard to do with crochet stitches.</p><p> I'd think it would be possible to poke at it a bit to figure out if there were crocheted stitches made from white yarn, joined to crocheted areas made of dark yarn. But I seem to see areas where the threads are dark on the front, and light on the back. That would indicate a painted or printed material, if the same thread is dark on one side and light on the other, as opposed to being stitched from the front with one color and from the back with another color. I'd think that would be pretty easy to detect by close examination.</p><p> My guess would be that the darker areas are printed onto a piece of white fabric.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 139339, member: 55"]Adding my two cents. I think the design appears to be painted on, or printed. In the close-up showing the birds head, the white areas do not seem to follow any of the stitches in the fabric; they just cut across them. And looking at the back, it appears that the dark-colored areas have bled onto the back a bit, but the back of the dark areas is still mostly white; that would be hard to do with crochet stitches. I'd think it would be possible to poke at it a bit to figure out if there were crocheted stitches made from white yarn, joined to crocheted areas made of dark yarn. But I seem to see areas where the threads are dark on the front, and light on the back. That would indicate a painted or printed material, if the same thread is dark on one side and light on the other, as opposed to being stitched from the front with one color and from the back with another color. I'd think that would be pretty easy to detect by close examination. My guess would be that the darker areas are printed onto a piece of white fabric.[/QUOTE]
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