Extraordinary Embroidery: Explore Alternative Organic Materials
Transferring Your Design
A course by Hillary Waters Fayle , Textile Artist
Joined September 2021
About the video: Transferring Your Design
Overview
“Next, I'll show you two different ways to transfer the design you've drawn out for yourself onto the material you've chosen. ”
In this video lesson Hillary Waters Fayle addresses the topic: Transferring Your Design, 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
“ Transferring Your Design Now that you know how to prepare the materials, in this lesson, we'll talk about how to transfer your design. There are a few reasons why you might not want to draw directly on the material or object that you intend to stitch on. Those being that the pen that you use might leave lasting marks that you don't want on your material. You can see here that the pen that I used to do a test drawing has smudged badly when I applied the PVA glue on top of it. The other side of that circle that I used the air soluble ink on has completely disappeared. That's still an option...”
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Course summary for: Extraordinary Embroidery: Explore Alternative Organic Materials
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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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