Painting with Thread: Textile Illustration Techniques
How do you prepare a hoop for embroidery?
A course by Gimena Romero , Artist and Researcher
About the video: How do you prepare a hoop for embroidery?
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll show you how to prepare hoops for embroidery. It's something very simple, but sometimes those details are what make everything else less complicated.”
In this video lesson Gimena Romero addresses the topic: How do you prepare a hoop for embroidery?, 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
“HOW DO YOU PREPARE A HOOP FOR EMBROIDERY? How to prepare your hoop to start embroidering. This part, together with pattern transfer, are the things that I need to do before starting to embroider, and that I hate, but if I don't do them with love, nothing else will work. Lining and preparing the hoop helps protect the fabric and makes it look better. I've also been told that it helps with self-discipline, but I confess that I don't line all my hoops. This time we'll do it. How? I already have prepared strips of the same cotton that I used for the transfer, and I used the scraps to make bands...”
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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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