Needle Embroidery: Create a Natural Composition
Work with different materials, tips and advice
A course by Zélia Smith , Textile Artist
About the video: Work with different materials, tips and advice
Overview
“I will try in this lesson to answer questions that you may ask yourself when making your embroidery!”
In this video lesson Zélia Smith addresses the topic: Work with different materials, tips and advice, 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
“Work with different materials In this lesson, I will explain to you a little more precisely things about fabrics and threads that you can use. I already told you earlier about the simplest fabric that you can embroider, which is a cotton canvas. I also really like working with flax. The problem with flax, is that often, it is very fine and irregular materials. So if you want to go a little further and work on these slightly more complex materials, here are some tips. The first thing, if your fabric is way too loose, is that to use two layers of the same fabric to embroider. Possibly, if you...”
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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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