Embroidery Techniques: Illustrating with Needle and Thread
How to take care of your embroidery
A course by Yolanda Andrés , Designer, Craft Artist, and Embroiderer
About the video: How to take care of your embroidery
Overview
“In this lesson I give you my recommendations to take care of the embroidery that you have done in the best way”
In this video lesson Yolanda Andrés addresses the topic: How to take care of your embroidery, 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
“[Music] To finish I'll tell you how we have to take care of our embroidery and how we have to wash it. The embroidery when we are working gets dirty very much, because of the sweat, because maybe you embroider in the sun, because you fall to the ground, because you take the dog, Well, it is very important to know how to wash it. To wash it always wash and is rubbed on the wrong side so as not to tear the part of forward which is where the . It is washed with soap. I wash it with handmade soap that they make in the area where I live, but there is lizard soap in the market which is very good ...”
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Course summary for: Embroidery Techniques: Illustrating with Needle and Thread
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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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