Color Theory for Textile Projects
Presentation
A course by Karen Barbé , Embroidery Artist and Designer
About the video: Presentation
Overview
“In this lesson I introduce myself and tell you how my journey as a designer and embroiderer has been, from the first stitches I learned to do as a child to my textile enterprise. I also tell you about my classes and my color and embroidery book "Color Confident Stitching".”
In this video lesson Karen Barbé addresses the topic: Presentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Color Theory for Textile Projects. Learn to create color palettes for your embroidery.
Partial transcription of the video
“Hello, I am Karen Barbé and I give you the welcome to this course of Domestika. I'm a designer, embroiderer and author of the book Color Confident Stitching. I live in Santiago de Chile and I want to tell you a little about myself. Since I was a girl I learned to sew, knit, embroider with my mom, it was lucky because the house was always full of materials, colors, fabrics, wool. All that was feeding from very small this desire to do things, to be in contact with everything whatever the materials were, the manual things. Then, I decided to study Design as a way to honor and formalize all thi...”
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Course summary for: Color Theory for Textile Projects
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Areas
Color Theory, Embroidery, Fashion Design

Karen Barbé
A course by Karen Barbé
Karen Barbé is an embroidery artist and designer with more than a decade of experience. She shares her knowledge and passion for color by teaching classes in different educational institutions and has even published a book on the subject: Color Confident Stitching: How to Create Beautiful Color Palettes.
Karen learned to embroider, knit, and sew from her mother starting at a young age, skills that have led her to work in the retail and marketing industry, as well as teach university-level classes to students studying design. In 2015, she earned a certificate in hand embroidery from the Royal School of Needlework in the UK. From her studio in Santiago, Chile, Karen teaches her students how to embroider and create color palettes while constantly experimenting with new embroidery designs and patterns in her personal projects.
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