Embroidered Portraits with Punch Needle

Prepping Your Canvas and Image Transfer

A course by Camille Labarre , Freelance Fabricator

Learn how to create unique embroidered portraits full of color and texture using the punch needle technique

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About the video: Prepping Your Canvas and Image Transfer

Overview

“In this lesson, we’ll cover how to stretch your canvas, what fabrics work best, and transferring your image to your canvas.”

In this video lesson Camille Labarre addresses the topic: Prepping Your Canvas and Image Transfer, which is part of the Domestika online course: Embroidered Portraits with Punch Needle. Learn how to create unique embroidered portraits full of color and texture using the punch needle technique.

Partial transcription of the video

“Prepping your canvas + image transfer Now it's time to stretch our canvas. What I prefer to do is to get a store-bought, pre-stretched canvas, take a utility knife, cut it off, and use a pair of pliers to get all those staples out. But keep the corner staples in, because those keep the frame together. You'll have something like this. I'm gonna show you how to stretch that now. Alright, we have here our linen weaver's cloth, which is what I prefer to use, and we have about two inches clearance all around. You'll want that for leverage because we're going to be tugging on this part of the fab...”

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Course summary for: Embroidered Portraits with Punch Needle

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (104)
1931 students
4 units
15 lessons (2h 23m)
16 downloads

Category
Craft
Areas
Embroidery, Portrait Illustration, Punch Needle, Textile Design, Textile Illustration

Camille Labarre

A course by Camille Labarre

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Freelance Fabricator

Camille Labarre is a freelance crafter specializing in the creation of props, puppets, and sets for animation, film, and theater. Based in New York City, she often works for puppetry companies and stage productions on Broadway, and creates miniatures for TV commercials.

As a passionate crafter, she explores and blends techniques from other disciplines to make her work unique. She has collaborated on projects for Honda, Gucci, Amazon, and Tom Ford, among others. You can find her work in television and short films, as well as on walls, stages, and Instagram.