Hand Embroidery for Clothing: Stitch a Collage Design
How to Get Started and What Materials to Use
A course by Damaja , Embroidery Artist and Designer
About the video: How to Get Started and What Materials to Use
Overview
“Let me tell you what creativity means to me and how I combine inspirational images to create and finalize each design. I will also show you the materials I use to help me turn my ideas into hand embroidery reality.”
In this video lesson Damaja addresses the topic: How to Get Started and What Materials to Use, which is part of the Domestika online course: Hand Embroidery for Clothing: Stitch a Collage Design. Learn to embroider colorful images onto stretchy garments to upcycle your clothing into fashionable works of art.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I will speak what creativity means to me, and I will also show you how to create an embroidery design out of your idea. Every time when I start working on a new design, I try to find inspiration in simple objects and images around me. I never search for an inspiration in another embroidery artist or other embroidery work because I just want to keep my designs clean and to don't mix them with something that existed before. I like originality and I think it's the only thing that's in all of us. And of course, it's easier maybe to copy someone else's work, but the fruits of an ...”
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Course summary for: Hand Embroidery for Clothing: Stitch a Collage Design
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Category
Craft, Fashion -
Areas
Embroidery, Textile Design, Upcycling
Damaja
A course by Damaja
Stefanija Pejchinovska is an embroidery artist and designer from Skopje, Macedonia. She goes by her artist name Damaja and is currently based in Berlin. Although she studied architecture at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, she had always known her passion was for embroidery. Throughout her short architecture career, she opened an Etsy shop to sell her designs, and quickly started growing as a brand. Soon after, she professionally established her brand, quit her architecture job and hasn’t looked back since.
At the heart of her work, she is focused on creating unique designs on ethically-made clothing. She has collaborated with a number of sustainable brands and local artists such as Corvera Vargas, Loveco, The Artesao, Toba, Marin et Marine, Lanius and Treches Studio.
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