My name in folklore embroidery - Shevitsa

I've been interested in exploring a slavic traditional embroidery and tattoo language called shevitsa (шевица). From my research I found out that this used to be a way of showing people where you're from as in country, county, city/village, tribe. You could add your family name and spiritual protector (in some cases animals like in other traditions, but also pagan gods). I decided to try and create my name out of shevitsa and I'm quite pleased with the result. What do you think? Do you have any traditions that you'd like to explore through art?

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