Textile Embroidery with Beads: Patterns You Can Replicate
A course by Raquel Ezquerro (Lanusa)Textile Designer
A course by Raquel Ezquerro (Lanusa), Textile Designer
Learn to create colorful embroidery compositions and discover how to replicate them as many times as you want to give personality to any garment
Do you love nothing more than experimenting and playing around with stitches? According to textile designer Raquel Ezquerro, who has worked for brands like Delpozo and Emes, there are no rules when it comes to emroidery. Master your needle and thread to express a world of emotion and use it to add a decorative twist to items of clothing.
In this course, Raquel teaches you to create embroidered compositions with beautiful beading and to produce patterns to replicate your designs and customize your garments. Look at how to prepare an embroidery hoop and how to work with sequins, beading, seed beads, and crystals to get 3D effects.
What will you learn in this online course?
19 lessons & 24 downloads
Materials
2 minutes, 8 seconds
Assemble the frame
3 minutes, 56 seconds
Embroidery with rhinestones: sequins
18 minutes, 30 seconds
Embroidery with rhinestones: crystals
9 minutes, 48 seconds
Looking for inspiration and selection of materials
16 minutes, 23 seconds
Composition
10 minutes, 39 seconds
What's included in this course?
Raquel Ezquerro starts the course by telling you how she first became interested in embroidery and how it naturally developed into her full-time career. She also talks about her influences, from artists and brands to nature.
Next, look at the necessary materials and their broad characteristics, as well as some examples of different compositions to understand the world of possibilities that embroidery offers. Learn how to set up a standard embroidery hoop and use it to start experimenting.
Raquel shows you in detail how to get started in beaded embroidery with some useful techniques. First, getting the most out of each individual piece, then combining sequins, beading, crystals, and seed beads to get voluminous effects full of nuance.
Look for inspiration to develop your sketches, then your teacher guides you in finding your own unique style. Once you've decided on your final design, create a pattern to be able to replicate it as many times as you want and discover how to transfer it to any surface.
Now Raquel teaches you some tricks to finish up an embroidery piece using knots and gum arabic or glue. To wrap up the course, she explains how to care for your creation so it stands the test of time.
What is this course's project?
Make a piece of beaded embroidery to apply to the garment of your choice.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Anyone who has a passion for embroidery and loves to learn, as well as fashion designers or creatives keen to apply this technique to their projects.
Requirements and materials
No previous knowledge is necessary for this course.
As for materials, you need an embroidery hoop, needles, thread, and the beads you'd like to use.
Reviews
- 2 months ago
Muy lindo curso !
- 5 months ago
Me gusto mucho, está muy bien explicado.
- 7 months ago
Es un curso maravilloso, completisimo para aprender todo lo necesario para crear tus proyectos de pedrería, ademas de dar tips detallados de todo lo que se encuentra en el mercado sobre piedras y lentejuelas, es una guía básica imprescindible para mi en este tipo de arte.
- 9 months ago
excelente y detallada explicacion de bordado. muy variada muestra de materiales. Raquel es clara para transmitir. lo unico que de repente se pasa en una leccion al ingles y no hay posibilidad de continuar en español.
- 1 year ago
Great course,was beyond my expectation ,i learned a lot !
She currently combines her work as an e-commerce business analyst with her passion for embroidery. She has worked for the luxury brand Delpozo and for clients such as La casita de Wendy and Emes.
Content
- U1
Introduction
- About Me
- Influences
- U2
Development of an embroidery
- Materials
- Different compositions
- Assemble the frame
- U3
Types of embroidery
- Embroidery with rhinestones: sequins
- Embroidery with rhinestones: beads
- Embroidery with rhinestones: crystals
- Embroidery with rhinestones: beads
- Mixing materials
- U4
Embroidery Creation
- Looking for inspiration and selection of materials
- Composition
- Creation of the embroidery template
- Transfer to fabric
- Embroidery 1
- Embroidery 2
- Embroidery 3
- U5
Final details
- Finish and details
- Garment care
- FP
Final project
- Textile Embroidery with Beads: Patterns You Can Replicate
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FAQs
You’ll learn techniques to design and stitch with beads, Swarovski crystals, sequins, and bugle beads; create floral and 3D compositions; blend luxurious and folk materials; and apply decorative motifs to garments and accessories.
This is an intermediate-level course, perfect if you already know basic embroidery and want to master advanced bead and crystal techniques.
You’ll need an embroidery hoop, special embroidery needles, strong threads, sequins, bugle beads, Swarovski crystals, gum arabic, tracing paper, scissors, suitable fabrics, and folk or luxury materials to mix.
The course combines elements like crystals, sequins, and bugle beads with traditional materials such as wool, raffia, or ethnic fabrics, creating visual and textural contrasts that enrich the embroidery design.
You’ll learn backstitch, straight-line mounting, grouping crystals, making fringes, color combinations, and 3D techniques to achieve decorative effects and floral compositions.
Techniques include folding, horizontal and vertical combinations, 3D mounting, layering, and using different sizes and finishes of materials to create depth and 3D effects.
Motifs are specific decorative designs; coverage means filling an area with beads; positional embroidery places elements strategically, like on shirts or particular garments.