Embroider heart with tension stitches

In the Stitch embroidery magazine of a few years ago there was a nice heart embroidered in tension stitches. It looks a bit like the threadwork I used to make where you had to wrap threads around nails in a certain order, after which you got a kind of geometric figure. That’s how this heart is built. I embroidered an example.

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That’s how it’s structured.

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That’s how the result can be.

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