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Textile Toys: Design and Creation of Fabric Characters

Craft sewing techniques

A course by Piti Piti , Textile Sculptor

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13,089 students

Audio: Spanish

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About the video: Craft sewing techniques

Overview

“In this lesson I will teach you the 5 basic stitches (basting, seamstress, zig zag, eyelet and closing or invisible) that will help you to make all your pieces throughout the course.”

In this video lesson Piti Piti addresses the topic: Craft sewing techniques, which is part of the Domestika online course: Textile Toys: Design and Creation of Fabric Characters. Learn to create three-dimensional patterns and apply volumetric solutions to your character designs.

Partial transcription of the video

“HANDMADE SEWING TECHNIQUES In this lesson, let's learn the five basic stitches that can help us make our pieces. The first one we are going to learn is called basting. As you can see, I have a knitting frame here. This fabric is hooped to offer some tension and make the view of the stitches clearer. Let's take a needle and we are going to string it with approximately one meter of thread. We take our needle, we pass the thread through the eyelet and stretch it, so that both ends are together. Once they're together, we're going to tie a knot. A quick way to tie a knot is to entangle the threa...”

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Course summary for: Textile Toys: Design and Creation of Fabric Characters

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (655)
13089 students
6 units
18 lessons (2h 47m)
5 downloads

Category
Craft
Areas
Character Design, Sewing, Textile Design, Toy Design

Piti Piti

A course by Piti Piti

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Textile Sculptor

Omar Gad, also known as Piti Piti, is a self-taught textile sculptor specializing in three-dimensional pattern design and textile solutions. He is passionate about geometry, terror, mystery, and toys and is in constant search of the unusual.

Since opening the Piti Piti Plush Art studio, he has developed several lines of his own products, participated in individual and group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad, as well as collaborated with renowned artists and designers such as El Grand Chamaco, Bue the Warrior, Quique Ollervides, Pogo, Tixinda, Chika Galaxia, and more.

He has also worked commercially with clients including the Galería Mexicana del Diseño, Vértigo Galería, Hula Hula, MUAC, Passion & Design, Rojo Bermelo, Pepsi, Red Bull México, Habas World Wide, Kastner & Partners, and Digital Invaders.