Embroidery on Wood: Art Inspired by Nature

Getting Familiar with Your Rotary Tool

A course by Sara Pastrana (Flourishing Fibers) , Graphic Designer and Fiber Artist

100% positive reviews (31)

1,277 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Getting Familiar with Your Rotary Tool

Overview

“Now, I will teach you how to set up your workspace to drill safely and accurately.”

In this video lesson Sara Pastrana (Flourishing Fibers) addresses the topic: Getting Familiar with Your Rotary Tool, which is part of the Domestika online course: Embroidery on Wood: Art Inspired by Nature. Discover how to add threads and textures to a piece of wood to create a unique work of art, from drilling to stitching and hanging.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Getting Familiar with Your Rotary Tool In this lesson, I'll be teaching you how to use your rotary tool. The rotary tool has different speeds for different types of materials. For your rotary tool, I recommend using level 6 through 8. You don't want to use a level lower than that. It will be too slow for the wood and it could cost the bit to break or to deflect. You don't need to go to level 10 either, it's not necessary. I find level 8 to be perfect for thicker woods and level 6 for thinner wood. The most popular or frequent bit that I use is the 1/16 and depending on the thickness of th...”

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Course summary for: Embroidery on Wood: Art Inspired by Nature

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (31)
1277 students
5 units
20 lessons (3h 54m)
8 downloads

Category
Craft
Areas
Embroidery, Textile Design, Woodworking

Sara Pastrana (Flourishing Fibers)

A course by Sara Pastrana (Flourishing Fibers)

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Graphic Designer and Fiber Artist

Sara Pastrana is a graphic designer and fiber artist based in Los Angeles, California. She has worked as a graphic designer for more than 14 years since studying the subject at university. She felt a strong desire to pursue a creative outlet different to her day job, where she was able to work with her hands, and started making embroidery art in 2012. She began experimenting with different types or materials until she found her passion for working with wood and paper.

Embroidering with unconventional materials and learning to build custom panels allowed Sara to develop both her creative and technical skills. Sara has established her niche of combining woodworking technology with traditional, hand-crafted embroidery. She later founded her own business, Flourishing Fibers, where she sells kits, equipment, and her pieces, and she also shares her work with over 15K followers on Instagram.