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Embroidery Tutorial: How to Finish Your Design
Learn these tricks to give your embroidery a professional finish, as well as tips to protect your designs in the long-term
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CraftKrizia Robustella’s Upcycling Tips to Renew Your Sportswear
Get inspired, learn to customize your sports garments, and create stylish clothing through upcycling Barcelona-born Krizia Robustella (@kriziarobustella)has been working as a fashion designer for over ten years. Her mother was a fashion wholesaler and named her after the Italian fashion brand she had seen in Vogue in the 70s. Her fate was decided on that day. She presented her recycled 90s tracksuits in the Ego de Cibeles catwalk in 2007. The press called her style Sport Deluxe. From that moment, her collections have been part of the Mercedes-Benz Madrid Fashion Week and the 080 Barcelona Fashion. She also sells them in her shop in the Catalonian capital. Read on to discover how she creates two sports outfits out of an old sweatshirt, using upcycling, and see a gallery of her pieces.
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Craft15 Contemporary Designers Working with Prints
Be inspired to create unique and charming clothes with the beautiful print work of world-renowned fashion designers Julia Pelletier (@julia_pelletier) is a textile designer who has specialized in silk screen printing, drawing, and teaching for over 15 years. In her Domestika course, she will teach you to combine creative techniques to design unique garments. Creating art that you can wear is a great way to show off your style and personality. Before you get started on your creation, she encourages you to look to some of today’s most creative contemporary designers working with prints for inspiration. Find the list below:
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CraftDomestika Challenge: Kseniia Guseva Embroiders a Building in 30 Minutes
See if embroidery artist Kseniia Guseva can embroider a building in the centre of Madrid in just 30 minutes Embroidery is a slow and meticulous process… but not today. For the latest installment of our Domestika Challenge series, we’ve put international embroidery artist Kseniia Guseva’s (@faimyxstitch) skills to the test with a 30 minute embroidery challenge in Madrid's iconic Plaza Mayor. Kseniia Guseva (@faimyxstitch) has been embroidering every day since 2016, creating stitchwork cityscapes—an interest shaped by the architecture of her hometown of Saint Petersburg. Her talent and commitment as an embroidery artist has garnered her an Instagram following in the hundreds of thousands but she’s never faced a challenge like this before: stitching a building in just half an hour. Want to see how she did? Check out the video below:
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CraftFree Download: Miniature Christmas Embroidery Patterns
Decorate your tree with unique embroidery and make this Christmas an even craftier holiday In the hands of Silvia Peligro (@silviapeligro), the artisanal work of embroidery gets distilled into tiny, beautiful pieces. This type of small-scale craft is perfect for creating unique decorative pieces for your Christmas tree. Today, the Mexican embroiderer shares six patterns that you can use to make beautiful handmade ornaments to decorate your house with this Christmas. You can download Silvia Peligro's miniature Christmas embroidery patterns at the end of this article.
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CraftDomestika Diaries: Juliana Mota
Embroiderer, designer and illustrator: Juliana Mota shares her routine and creative approach to free embroidery
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Craft5 Tips for Working With Embroidery
Get expert advice on how to improve your techniques and turn pro People have embroidered for centuries, using this technique to decorate and customize garments and make them more special. Over time, this practice has evolved. Once embroidered pieces were something only the rich and powerful could afford. Now, they are commonly owned by people from all different walks of life. Embroidery is a versatile form of expression with few restrictions, popular across numerous cultures, from east to west, and which has become a very accessible art form. Paula Linard (@paula.linard) has over five years of experience as a professional embroiderer. For her, this medium offers infinite possibilities, from decorating paintings, personalizing clothing–both old and new–to making more elaborate pieces. "There’s a great demand for pieces made for babies or to give as gifts. We just need to develop our drawing skills a little more in order to put our stamp on a piece. We need to focus on the artistic side of this craft, which is a form of expression. It's good to try and create your own drawing, evolve your own line–it doesn't have to be perfect. I like to observe and appreciate the imperfections in my stitches and drawings. It doesn't always look so attractive at first but the final result always makes me happy, because I have created it with my own hands, from start to finish. That is invaluable", she says.
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CraftWhat Is Embroidery and What Are the Main Types of Embroidery?
Learn about the infinite possibilities of this technique If we wanted to define it in the simplest way, we could say that embroidery is a technique that consists of using a needle and thread to decorate fabric. However, there is so much more to be said about this technique, which is enjoying something of a renaissance right now. What was once written off as an insignificant craft activity, embroidery is now recognized as its own art form. Learn more about this exciting activity, which you can start practicing right away.
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CraftHow to Make a French Knot
Learn to make a French knot, with Kseniia Guseva The French knot is one of the oldest, simplest, and most useful decorative stitches in embroidery. The technique is also known as the forbidden stitch: legend has it that, centuries ago, young Chinese women were not permitted to use the stitch because the fine embroidery it was used for in China would strain their eyesight. Today, in Europe, the stitch is not so delicate: it is typically used to fill particular areas of a piece such as the centers of flowers, or anywhere a single dot is required. Kseniia Guseva (@faimyxstitch) has been embroidering every day since 2016, creating stitchwork cityscapes—an interest shaped by the architecture of her hometown of Saint Petersburg—while also feeding her other passion: upcycling. In this tip, she shows us how to make a French knot:
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CraftEmbroidery Tutorial: How to Transfer Your Design from Paper to Fabric
Learn how to transfer your illustration from paper to fabric using carbon copy paper, with Koral Antolin All you need is thread, a hoop, a needle, and a little patience to transform a blank canvas into a masterpiece. Embroidery is an entire world of different stitches, styles, and techniques, yet each piece begins the same way: a drawing on fabric. How can we get the best results when transferring the design? The answer is much simpler than you might have thought. The work of designer and embroiderer Koral Antolín (@koralantolin) fuses two of her great passions: drawing and embroidery. She is the founder and one of the creatives behind Fábrica de Imaginación and Studio.fi. Koral’s work combines embroidery stitches using a traditional neele and a Kantan needle to create unique portraits. In this tutorial, Koral Antolin will teach you how to transfer your illustration from paper to fabric using carbon copy paper for fabric, step by step. Discover more in the video below:
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Craft10 Hand Embroidery Online Courses to Spark Your Creativity With Needle and Thread
Discover the possibilities of this craft technique to create amazing textile art with your hands With a worldwide renaissance of embroidery, contemporary creators are expanding the textile art horizons. From realistic textile illustration to abstract art, it offers countless creative possibilities. If you want to get started in embroidery, or you want to learn new techniques to create with your hands, these 10 embroiderers and experts in textile art will teach you step by step:
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Craft20 Embroidery Books You Need in Your Reference Library
Textile artists recommend the embroidery books that helped them the most. Use them to find inspiration for your next projects There are plenty of embroidery resources online, but don't overlook traditional books as sources of inspiration. You'll discover new artists and see techniques, stitches, finishes, or materials in much more detail. We asked several textile artists to give us their favorite recommendations for embroidery books. What are yours? Let us know in the comments! Nayla Marc (@naylamarc) This designer and embroiderer based in Villa Ballester, Argentina, teaches the course Introduction to 3D embroidery. Among the books she enjoys most about the art of thread and needle are the following: The Embroidery Stitch Bible: Over 200 Stitches Photographed with Easy-to-Follow Charts, by Betty Barnden This is a reference guide for those who want to perfect their embroidery technique and learn new tricks. It includes basic stitches, such as the classic cross stitch, and more elaborate ones explained thoroughly. It has more than 200 techniques and stitches with enlarged diagrams and photographs.
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Craft10 Amazing Handmade Projects That You Can Make Right Now
Discover Domestika’s Crafty Tuesdays live stream series and get inspired to craft your own DIY creations The Crafty Tuesdays series emerged as part of Domestika Live’s live stream series, where creatives specialized in craft, handmade, and DIY projects from different disciplines share with you their secrets and tips to create unique projects with your hands and answer questions from the audience. Here are ten of the top broadcasts from this series of handmade projects and some others you can make with the materials you have at home.
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CraftEmbroidery Tutorial: Basic Techniques for Beginners
Learn how to use a hoop, thread, and needle to begin embroidering, with Kseniia Guseva Embroidery can make everything from your empty wall to the hole in your sneakers that bit more beautiful. While it may seem intimidating at first, learning the basic steps of this ancient craft will open up a world of upcycling and patchwork possibilities. Kseniia Guseva (@faimyxstitch) has been embroidering every day since 2016, creating stitchwork cityscapes—an interest shaped by the architecture of her hometown St Petersburg—as well as feeding her other passion: upcycling. Here she shares a few basic embroidery steps to help you get started, from how to set up your hoop to the various ways you thread the needle, that will help you start your embroidery journey right. Learn more in the video below:
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CraftDomestika Diary: Olga Prinku
The creator of flower on tulle embroidery takes us on a walk through the British countryside, where she finds inspiration and flowers for her creations Olga Prinku (@oprinku) is a designer and maker who created the flower on tulle embroidery technique, where she embroiders dried and handpicked flowers onto tulle. A trained graphic designer, Olga adapted her design skills to her botanical surroundings to create her unique and elegant style which has seen her collaborate with Swarovski, Anthropologie, and Ruth Eaton London. In this Domestika Diary, Olga shares her florally-inspired daily routine and creative process with us:
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Craft5 Textile Artists with Unique Styles You Should Follow on Instagram
Get to know some of Koral Antolín’s favorite textile artists In recent years, thanks to some excellent representatives around the world, textile art has been revamped. Textile artists who incorporate traditional techniques with contemporary experimentation have been creating unique and incomparable pieces. Designer, embroiderer, and art director Koral Antolín (@koralantolin) is one of these artists. She creates handcrafted textiles that embody her love for linear drawing and embroidery, with resulting painterly effects.
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CraftFree Download: Botanical Punch Needle Pattern by Caro Bello
Graphic designer and artist Caro Bello teaches you how to create a gorgeous botanical design using a punch needle Caro Bello (@carobello) is a graphic designer and artist specializing in punch needle whose work has been featured in publications and exhibitions such as OHLALÁ magazine and the 2019 edition of Casa FOA. In her Domestika Live, she will teach us how to punch needle a gorgeous botanical design. Here you can download the free pattern she will be teaching.
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CraftA Brief Introduction to the Kantan Needle
Discover the origin of this needle and the different types of embroidery projects you can create with it As a creative discipline, embroidery offers endless possibilities. Enthusiasts will find great satisfaction in discovering new materials to create projects that go far beyond working with a traditional needle and thread. In this blog, designer, art director, and embroiderer, Koral Antolín (@koralantolin) presents the Kantan needle–a tool that will help you add unique touches to your designs.
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CraftTransfer a Drawing to Fabric With This Simple Method
Learn a simple method to transfer your drawings to fabric to be able to embroider them easily When starting to embroider, no matter what method we want to use, having a pattern helps us know where to work, especially if we are just starting out. A common option is to transfer a drawing to fabric and then use it as a reference for our stitches. In the following video, the designer, embroiderer and art director Koral Antolín (@koralantolin) shows us a simple method step by step to transfer our drawings to fabric and embroider them easily. Discover it below:
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CraftFree Download: Printable Punch Needle Template
Discover the possibilities of the punch needle with this embroidery template by Laura Ameba Known as a punch needle or a magic needle, this little embroidery gadget allows you to create authentic works of art with thread by adding volume and texture to your textile creations. Chilean textile artist Laura Ameba (@lauraameba) has spent years exploring its possibilities and has trained in Spain and Japan, where she was inspired not only to perfect her technique but also to explore ideas and ways of expressing herself. This punch needle embroidery template that she has shared with Domestika will help you practice your skills as a punch needle embroiderer and encourage you to show the world your techniques.
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CraftL’Abu Studio: Where Carpentry And Embroidery Come Together
L’Abu Studio produces a unique range of custom handmade wooden pieces featuring detailed embroidery Estela Botello grew up in Madrid, surrounded by a talented family of craftspeople. Looking back on her childhood, she recalls picking up her first needle around the age of six and learning to embroider and crochet with her grandmother (an expert at making intricate tablecloths). Since picking up her first needle, Estela has rarely put it down. Estela is the founder of L’Abu Studio (@labustudio), producing a unique range of custom-made decorative objects combining carpentry and other crafts such as embroidery and macrame–from unique wall hangings to embroidered furniture.
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CraftFree Download: embroidery stitch guide
Discover the different types of embroidery stitches you can use to create incredible textures and detail In the hands of Adriana Torres (@soymigadepan) a simple needle and piece of thread turn into powerful tools, which she uses to create illustrations in embroidery. This technique allows her, in addition to expressing her creativity, to achieve incredible textures and volumes that greatly enrich her work, creating a piece that is both visual and tactile. Perfecting her embroidery style has taken Adriana a lot of time as she's explored different materials and tools. Above all, it's taken practice to perfect the different types of stitches she uses. This embroidery stitch guide that she shares with Domestika is the result of years of discovery and experience.
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Craft5 Embroiderers That Will Inspire Your Next Creation
Find inspiration in the work of these textile artists, who will soon start new courses at Domestika As a creative discipline, contemporary embroidery offers limitless possibilities. Throughout the world, embroiderers have created designs with unique expressive styles and singular pieces. Here are five wonderful embroiderers who will soon be sharing their knowledge with you in new Domestika courses. Get to know them all! Elena Obando (@e___l___o) Based in San José, Costa Rica, Elena is a designer, jewelry maker, and embroiderer. After working in design and advertising, she discovered her love for handicrafts while studying contemporary jewelry. By combining various techniques, she self-taught her way into the world of embroidery, leaning on what she had learned as a child. Currently, embroidery is her main media. Her unmistakable style of textile illustrations is inspired by birds and portraits she stitches on tulle.
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CraftWhat Is Punch Needle and How Is It Different to Other Embroidery Styles?
Embroiderer Laura Ameba tells the origins and characteristics of punch needle Laura Ameba (@lauraameba) is an embroiderer who started out in traditional embroidery and haute couture in Barcelona, Paris, and Kyoto. Her love for punch needle and embroidery has taken her and her art to exhibitions around the world. Here, she shares what punch needle is: a technique that allows you to create beautiful three-dimensional effects and rich textures.
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CraftThe History of Embroidery: From Tutankhamun to the 21st Century
Before the advent of machines, embroidery served as a language that helped us understand the world When was embroidery first used? And where? Although these questions may seem simple, they are very difficult to answer. Examples from different cultures have been found all around the world. It’s an intrinsically human art form, the techniques of which have remained the same throughout centuries. Having endured the test of time, in recent years we have seen embroidery make a comeback and its popularity soar. Traditionally, embroidery was labeled a “feminine” activity. This mindset meant that society viewed it as a simple pastime. However, at the same time, it became a very intimate activity: a way of recounting history in secret. Do you want to learn more? Watch the video below!
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CraftWhat is Slow Stitch?
A movement that celebrates artisanal production values and a slower process of embroidery If traditional techniques that have been passed down through generations have shown us anything, it’s that it’s not always necessary to produce a lot and quickly, nor the perfect piece, to produce well. There is a movement within the world of embroidery that consists precisely of enjoying the journey, delighting in each stitch, and experimenting with the possibilities that arise when we dedicate time to planning each step–or we just let it flow. It’s known as slow stitch, and the Mexican textile artist Gabriela Martínez (@ofeliayantelmo) is one of its biggest ambassadors. We spoke with her to find out slow stitch is, what the movement consists of, and how to join it.
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CraftWhat Is Needle Painting?
Discover how to achieve realism using a needle and thread Needle painting or thread painting is an embroidery technique that uses traditional painting and drawing techniques to shade and add volume and structure to an image. The needle becomes your paintbrush and the thread, your paint. In recent years, needle painting has become a very popular technique thanks to the extraordinary effects you can create with every stitch.
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Craft10 Free Resources for Fashion Design
Check out some websites, apps, and free tutorials to start creating your own garments
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CraftFree Download: Hand Embroidery Botanical Alphabet
Adriana Torres shares with you a raised embroidery template Adriana Torres (@soymigadepan) is a designer and embroiderer with extensive experience in disciplines such as architecture, graphic design and illustration. In her brand, Miga de Pan, she uses various embroidery techniques, especially embossed and raised stitches.
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