Extraordinary Embroidery: Explore Alternative Organic Materials
Material Preparation
A course by Hillary Waters Fayle , Textile Artist
Joined September 2021
Joined September 2021
About the video: Material Preparation
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll teach you to determine if the material you've chosen might need reinforcement before stitching, and I'll show you how I add strength to extra delicate materials before I begin to stitch on them. ”
In this video lesson Hillary Waters Fayle addresses the topic: Material Preparation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Extraordinary Embroidery: Explore Alternative Organic Materials. Learn a new way to embroider by using unconventional materials to stitch unique and unexpected pieces.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Material Preparation In the previous lesson, we went over design inspirations and how to prepare your design for the next step, which is preparing your materials. Typically, when we embroider, we are embroidering on fabric, which has an inherent interlocking structure of the threads. They're woven or knit together in a way that will hold the structure of the stitches that you're adding for the embroidery. When working with a different material, a material that doesn't have that woven structure to hold everything in place, it might be necessary to reinforce it a bit. This PVA glue that I h...”
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Course summary for: Extraordinary Embroidery: Explore Alternative Organic Materials
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Category
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Areas
Embroidery, Textile Design
Hillary Waters Fayle
A course by Hillary Waters Fayle
Hillary Waters Fayle is an artist based in Richmond, Virginia, but originally from Buffalo, New York. She studied textile design at Buffalo State College, and embroidery at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. She also has a Master’s Degree from the department of craft and material studies at Virginia Commonwealth University
Her work has been widely exhibited and is included in the permanent collections of the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY, the Kalmthout Arboretum & Botanical Gardens in Belgium, the United States Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka and several private collections. She has also taught at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina, the Mediterranean Art & Design Program in Italy, and Yasar University in Turkey.
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