Di van Niekerk closed her business Mid May 2026.  Very sad news for embroiderers, indeed.

I only have a few of her beautiful hand painted ribbons in stock.

Di van Niekerk is a wellknown author, designer, professional fibre arts instructor. She is the author of fourteen best-selling books on needlecrafts and the author of the popular Box Full of Lessons series. 

New technology allowed her to use her watercolors and transfer these onto cotton fabric, in full color, to use as a pattern for her embroidery creations.

In this way she could also collaborate with other artists and turn their artworks into gorgeous embroidery pieces.

She exhibited/held workshops in Adelaide and Brisbane Australia, in London and Birmingham England, in beautiful Paris in France, Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia and in Kyiv in Ukraine.

After many years of observation and after extensive study of flowers and foliage, she started painting her own ribbons that blended so well, the completed designs were exceptionally realistic.

She trained Carol Carl, a talented embroiderer, and she and the team now help Di to create her best-selling range of silk and organza ribbons w
hich are purchased by embroiderers, teachers and shops all over the world.