Portrait Embroidery with Botanical Elements
Embroidering your design
A course by Andrea Orue , Textile Artist
About the video: Embroidering your design
Overview
“With the leaves and stems ready, it's time to embroider the flowers and their stems. I will work with many textures from different amounts of thread to embroider.”
In this video lesson Andrea Orue addresses the topic: Embroidering your design, which is part of the Domestika online course: Portrait Embroidery with Botanical Elements. Explore the basics of freestyle embroidery and create an original piece that connects hand, mind and heart.
Partial transcription of the video
“embroidering your design Last class, you saw the leaves and stems that I embroidered in my project. In this class, I will make all the flowers and their respective stems. For this flower, I decided to use it as a reference a flower that I really like to embroider, that I've applied to several other projects of mine. Which is this flower, in French knot. For the base of the flower, I do it like a leaf stitch, only with shorter stitches. Finished the base of my flower, now I'm going to make the stem in a back stitch and the leaves with the leaf point. I finished this flower, partially. She ha...”
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Course summary for: Portrait Embroidery with Botanical Elements
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Embroidery, Textile Design

Andrea Orue
A course by Andrea Orue
Andréa Orue, known on social media as Primavera de 83, is a textile artist and teacher. She has spent more than ten years seeking to unite hands, mind, and heart through embroidery, and revives this ancestral art through her pieces.
Thanks to her work, she's participated in large events such as São Paulo Fashion Week, and appeared on various TV shows in Brazil. One of her pieces appears on the cover of the book O Reino de Zália published by Companhia das Letras. She sells her work at the Jardim Secreto fair, via subscription to the Caixa Cosmos project, and also via other channels.
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