Needle Embroidery: Create a Natural Composition
Presentation
A course by Zélia Smith , Textile Artist
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“Let's start with the introductions. I will tell you a little more about my career: from my beginnings as a costume designer at the Opéra de Lyon to the creation of my own workshop on the Croix-Rousse plateau, in Lyon. I offer creative workshops for the general public and training adapted to professionals wishing to discover or deepen specific techniques. Come see me if you're in the area!”
In this video lesson Zélia Smith addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Needle Embroidery: Create a Natural Composition. Create a delicate plant pattern full of texture and originality with traditional embroidery techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“Presentation Hello everyone. Welcome to my course. In this lesson, I will tell you a little more about me and my background. My name is Zélia Smith and I am a thread craftsman. Since I was little, I have always been attracted to textiles. I hunted in garage sales or flea markets. I have always recovered lots of little pieces of fabric and threads that I consigned in boxes or notebooks. I remember the texture of the old sheets or old dresses at my grandparents' house. I remember the braiding of threads and things that I could collect on the right, on the left. In my school career, quite clas...”
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Course summary for: Needle Embroidery: Create a Natural Composition
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Category
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Areas
Color Theory, Embroidery, Textile Design, Traditional illustration
Zélia Smith
A course by Zélia Smith
Since she was a little girl, Zélia Smith has been drawn to those pieces of embroidered fabric found at the bottom of a box at a garage sale. It was therefore quite natural that she would go on to study applied arts related to the fashion and textile trades. Her fascination with the stage led her to become a costume designer for national theaters and opera houses.
Despite her academic training, she likes to steer away from perfection to create exactly what she imagines in her mind's eye. In 2015, she launched an Instagram account dedicated to her small embroidered creations and quickly achieved great success. She then opened her own workshop and published a book on hand embroidery: Jungle Broderie, published by Marabout/Hachette.
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