Painting with Thread: Textile Illustration Techniques
Rescue, patch and get over it!
A course by Gimena Romero , Textile Artist
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 was born in Mexico City in 1985 and lives between her hometown and Barcelona. She graduated in visual and plastic arts from the National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Engraving, 'La Esmeralda' of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), and attended the École Nationale des Beaux Arts in Lyon (France).
She has won several international awards. She began her career in the world of haute couture embroidery in Lesage (Paris) and in 2014 she began working as a guild apprentice of gold thread embroidery in Seville. Her work has been exhibited in locations around the world.
She has also collaborated on published works of fiction, poetry, and textile research with Thule Ediciones and Editorial Gustavo Gili. Her book 'Hebra de Agua' was selected as Book of the Year in 2016 at the 'Teixim la Ciutat' Festival held in Sant Cugat in Catalonia (Spain).
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