Painting with Thread: Textile Illustration Techniques
Introduction
A course by Gimena Romero , Artist and Researcher
About the video: Introduction
Overview
“Surely you want to know who your teacher is. In this lesson, you will learn a little about my professional career and how I discovered embroidery as a personal language.”
In this video lesson Gimena Romero addresses the topic: Introduction, which is part of the Domestika online course: Painting with Thread: Textile Illustration Techniques. Learn to use texture and color to bring your embroidery to life.
Partial transcription of the video
“PRESENTATION Hi. My name is Gimena Romero and I am a textile artist. Actually, I studied Visual and Plastic Arts in La Esmeralda, and I specialized in photography and graphics. It was there that I began to be interested in textiles, embroidery in particular. After this I studied Embroidery and Haute Couture in France. I studied embroidery with gold threads in a convent in Seville. I entered as an apprentice until I reached the highest level of the technique, and then I returned to Mexico and I started researching Mexican embroidery, which opened up a completely different outlook around embr...”
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Course summary for: Painting with Thread: Textile Illustration Techniques
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Category
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Areas
Embroidery, Textile Design, Traditional illustration
Gimena Romero
A course by Gimena Romero
Gimena Romero is an artist and writer based between Mexico City and Barcelona. She trained in various schools in Mexico, Spain, and France and has received multiple awards and mentions internationally.
Her work has been displayed in various exhibitions in countries like Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, France, Portugal, Ukraine, and Spain. She has several publications under her belt in the areas of narrative, poetry, and textile research with Thule Ediciones and Editorial Gustavo Gili. Her book Hebra de Agua was awarded Book of the Year at the 2016 Teixim la Ciutat festival in Catalonia.
She has also conducted research into embroidery and the body with Lausín embroidery at the UNAM Faculty of Arts and Design in Mexico. She loves life, dogs, and biscuits.
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