{"product_id":"new-york-city-hand-embroidered-vintage-tennis-racket-wall-art-black-white-thread-woven-through-the-strings-no-felt-no-shortcuts-every-racket-unique","title":"\"New York City\" — Hand-Embroidered Vintage Tennis Racket Wall Art — Black \u0026 White Thread Woven Through the Strings, No Felt, No Shortcuts, Every Racket Unique","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is no felt. Let that settle for a moment. What looks like a pennant is not a pennant — it is black and white thread, woven through the original strings of a vintage wooden tennis racket, intersection by intersection, until \"NEW YORK CITY\" emerges in bold block lettering from the string grid itself. No fabric attached. No panel inserted. Just thread, strings, and an extraordinary amount of skill and patience applied to a surface that nobody else thought to use this way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach piece is made on a vintage wooden tennis racket sourced individually — which means your racket will be its own object. Different maker, different era, different wood tone, different history. The examples shown give you the spirit of what you're receiving. The specific racket in your hands will be uniquely its own — chosen for its quality, its character, its strings, and its suitability for the work that comes next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat comes next is the embroidery. Black and white thread woven through the original strings — the technique treats the string grid the way a needlepoint canvas treats its mesh, filling intersections with thread to build colour, shape, and lettering from density alone. The result is dimensional, graphic, textural in a way that no flat print or attached element could achieve. Up close it reveals the individual stitches. From across the room it reads as bold, confident, completely resolved. The vintage wood frame around it does the rest — warm honey tones or darker stained grain depending on the racket, always beautiful, always the right foil for the black and white work within it. No two combinations will ever be identical. The racket you receive is the only version of that specific object and that specific embroidery that has ever existed or will.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHang it where New York City needs to be said. The entryway. The living room. The office wall. The bedroom of someone who chose this city and wants that choice made permanently, visibly, undeniably present. The craft will do the talking. The city will do the rest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not memorabilia. This is not a souvenir. This is handmade art of genuine technical complexity on a vintage object with genuine history, and it loves New York City the way New York City deserves to be loved — completely and without shortcuts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach racket individually sourced — vintage wood, original strings, its own character. \"New York City\" hand-embroidered in black and white thread woven through the string grid. No felt. No fabric. Thread only. The racket shown is an example — yours will be its own vintage original. One technique. One city. Never the same twice. Vintage wooden tennis racket — maker and era will vary, each sourced individually · Original strings throughout · \"New York City\" hand-embroidered in black and white thread woven through the string grid · No felt, no fabric panel — thread only · Pennant shape and lettering built entirely from thread density · Wall art only — not for play ·\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Racket shown is a Slazenger Royal Crown — your racket will be a different vintage original with its own character · Spot clean embroidery only · Do not attempt to remove or unpick embroidery · One of a kind — the specific combination of racket and embroidery will never be reproduced · The strings held the thread. The thread built the city. Your wall gets both.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Snarky Stitches","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52826189398316,"sku":null,"price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/8522\/3468\/files\/IMG_1507.jpg?v=1775482413","url":"https:\/\/snarkystitchesbynikkigarb.com\/products\/new-york-city-hand-embroidered-vintage-tennis-racket-wall-art-black-white-thread-woven-through-the-strings-no-felt-no-shortcuts-every-racket-unique","provider":"Snarky Stitches","version":"1.0","type":"link"}