Embroidery Techniques: Illustrating with Needle and Thread
Presentation
A course by Yolanda Andrés , Designer, Craft Artist, and Embroiderer
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to tell you how I started working with embroidery and I will also tell you some things about my work.”
In this video lesson Yolanda Andrés addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Embroidery Techniques: Illustrating with Needle and Thread. Learn to illustrate any image with a variety of embroidery techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“[Instrumental] Hi, I'm Yolanda Andrés, Welcome to my workshop. And well, thank you for acquiring this course, that I think you will like very much, because I’m going to make it very easy for you, and you will see how fun it is to embroider, the story that each thread can have, and how mixing different textures, different threads, you are going to make a piece, and an embroidery .. It really surprises, and you will be very satisfied. Well, we are in the center of Madrid, in an area in Lavapies, We are at street level. I greet friends every bit, Then there will be a little noise. Excuse that,...”
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Course summary for: Embroidery Techniques: Illustrating with Needle and Thread
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Category
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Areas
Embroidery, Textile Design

Yolanda Andrés
A course by Yolanda Andrés
Yolanda Andrés studied fine art and graphic design at the Universidad de Salamanca, as well as painting at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles in Belgium. She also obtained a master’s in packaging from the Instituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Madrid.
Before focusing exclusively on embroidery, she served as art director for a communication agency for more than a decade. She currently runs her own workshop in the Lavapiés neighborhood of Madrid where she works on pieces for brands and institutions like Carolina Herrera, Zubi, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum shop. Additionally, Yolanda teaches classes at IED and the Escuela Superior de Diseño (ESD) in Madrid.
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