Painting with Thread: Textile Illustration Techniques
Rescue, patch and get over it!
A course by Gimena Romero , Artist and Researcher
About the video: Rescue, patch and get over it!
Overview
“Not everything is lost, sometimes it is not that it has left us ugly, we only have existential bordadísticas crisis (I am in one all the time). But almost everything has a solution and here I will show you some tricks to rescue your embroidery when something goes wrong.”
In this video lesson Gimena Romero addresses the topic: Rescue, patch and get over it!, 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
“RESCUE, PATCH, AND GET OVER IT! This is the piece I was talking about, where I messed up big time. I know that embroidery is a reflection of you, that it shows what's going on inside us, but if at some point it's not flowing, it's not happening, and you want to repair it, this is how you repair it with the overembroidering technique. This is the chaotic area. I messed it up because I was supposed to work with 413 and 317, and I was tired and in a rush and I confused 317 with 318. Although the numbers are very close, they are very different colors, so I made a mess. These are marks I leave t...”
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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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