5 Free Online Classes to Learn How to Take Care of Your Embroidery

Discover the best care you can give to your embroidery with the advice of five experts

Hand embroidery is a very delicate process, time consuming and requires great attention to detail. Therefore, it is essential to know how to take care of your pieces. After so much dedication, you probably don't want your creations to spoil due to lack of care.

With this in mind and with the intention that you learn to care for your hand embroidery like a pro, we have selected the following free classes. To see each lesson, you just have to click on its red title. Enjoy!

Free class: Care for Clothes With Hand Embroidery

In this lesson, Kseniia Guseva, who teaches the Upcycling with Embroidery course at Domestika, shares tips on how to care for embroidered clothing. You will learn what happens if you put an embroidery in a washing machine.

Free class: Care

If you want to repair your clothes and give your garments a new life, the visible mending technique will help you in this process. In this class of the course Embroidery: Clothing Repair, Gabriela Martínez - expert in embroidery and textile art and creator of the Ofelia & Antelmo project - tells you how to take care of your clothes and offers you the best tips to preserve garments made by hand.

Free class: How to take care of your rhinestones and closure

In the Beaded Embroidery Portraits course, Camila Rubio Erazo explores the infinite possibilities of embroidery with the aim of creating original, striking and unique pieces, playing with different formats, materials, sizes and supports. In this lesson she offers you some basic tips that will allow you to properly care for your pieces with rhinestones or rhinestones. Thus, you will learn how to wash them, how to dry them and how to store them.

Free class: Washing and caring for your embroidery

Although washing may seem very simple, with magic needle embroidery you have to take some special care when immersing them in water. In this lesson from the Introduction to Punch Needle Embroidery course, Laura Ameba explains what stitches you can easily put in the washing machine and what you need to protect them, and which stitches are preferable not to wet or should be washed more delicately.

Free class: Uses and care

Harmoniously uniting two almost antagonistic techniques and making them complementary requires a special sensitivity to the arts, as well as a great desire to experiment and make mistakes until the perfect combination is found. This is the specialty of Katy Biele, who teaches the Embroidery and Watercolor Basic Techniques course. In this class she offers you tips to take care of your embroidery and paintings, so that your work lasts over time and remains in perfect condition.

These classes will be open until February 7th, 2021. If after that date you want to want to access the rest of the content, you can do so by signing up for each course.

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