Hand Embroidery for Clothing: Stitch a Collage Design
Pattern and Tail
A course by Damaja , Embroidery Artist and Designer
About the video: Pattern and Tail
Overview
“Let me show you how sometimes you can create patterns made of simple stitches for fast and fun surface filling.”
In this video lesson Damaja addresses the topic: Pattern and Tail, 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
“After we finish embroidering the legs, in this lesson I will start with embroidering the body of the oryx. So for the body, I will use the same color of thread as I used for the knees before. So I will take only two strands. The outlines I will do them with the stem stitch. And the inside, because we already filled a lot of the shapes of the Oryx. I will just do a pattern which I use sometimes and it's mostly freestyle stitches, one next to each other. I will show you how I do it. Just so we save time and we change a bit of the structure so it's not always the same texture in all of the dra...”
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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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