Peichang Ouyang
I am a faithful fan of Escher art. Now I am a professor at the School of Science, Guangxi University of Science and Technology. I received PhD degree in 2012 from the Sun Yat-sen University, China. My research interests include fractals, tilings, computer graphics, and the generation of Escher-like patterns.
Pyramid Knight is inspired by Escher's Horseman and adapted from
an original tessellation by Alain Nicolas. It was designed by
Illustrator in vector format that satisfies precise wallpaper
symmetry. However, we only show ten knights which are arranged as
a pyramid structure. To enhance the aesthetic effect, we used the
manual embroidery so that the embroidered knights has a slight
three-dimensional effect. Because the thread used is very
delicate, the entire embroidery, done by Fang Chen, took nearly a
month. Note that the embroidery technique used here is the famous
Suzhou embroidery that has a long history in China. Suzhou
embroidery has a unique style of beautiful patterns, ingenious
ideas, meticulous embroidery, lively stitching, and elegant
colors, with strong local characteristics.