Embroidery Techniques: Illustrating with Needle and Thread
Flat stitch 1
A course by Yolanda Andrés , Designer, Craft Artist, and Embroiderer
Learn to illustrate any image with a variety of embroidery techniques
- Spanish with subtitles in English
- 98% positive reviews (717)
- 10279 students
About the video: Flat stitch 1
Overview
“In this lesson I tell you the secrets of the flat stitch”
In this video lesson Yolanda Andrés addresses the topic: Flat stitch 1, 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] Now we are going to start embroidering now. And we're going to start with the flat stitch, which is the simplest stitch. Here we have the drawing that we have made, transferred, but I want to teach them before, I always work with a sample. When I teach the stitches, it is always better to see what we are going to embroider, so you know what we are going to embroider, so, let's start with the flat stitch, which would be the black outline, which was called the stroke stitch. Because it is normally used for profiling. Then we're going to do some other flat stitches here, which a...”
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Course summary for: Embroidery Techniques: Illustrating with Needle and Thread
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Category
Craft -
Areas
Embroidery, Textile Design, Textile Illustration
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.
- 98% positive reviews (717)
- 10279 students
- 13 lessons (2h 14m)
- 9 additional resources (7 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish, English, Portuguese
- Level: Intermediate
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