Miniature Embroidery Techniques

Embroidery is an art that has existed for centuries and Silvia Peligro, embroiderer specializing in miniature pieces, has taken as her the mission of preserving the techniques that have lasted to this day. Through his hand-embroidered creations, he has worked with important textile brands such as Coats and Gütermann.

In this course you will learn the stitches that Silvia uses to create her miniature embroideries and, in addition, you will see how she converts them into figures that range from the simplest with plasta colors, to landscapes with gradients of color and depth.

You will meet Silvia Peligro, who will tell you about her beginnings as an embroiderer and will share her main influences from the textile world.

Before starting to draw with yarn, you will review with Silvia the materials you will need and you will see the basic preparations before embroidering, such as transferring the stroke to the fabric, placing it in the frame and threading the needle with the mouliné thread.

You will learn the four ideal stitches that you can use in contours and fillings to work on a small scale. Once the stitches are mastered, you will apply them in three exercises with different levels of difficulty.

First you will embroider a flower with stem and leaves, as a second project, you will embroider a human eye, where you will use layers of yarn to generate the sensation of volume.

In the third project, you will apply the embroidery technique in a miniature landscape; where you will learn how to degrade the tones of the sky, embroider the grass with two different stitches and, finally, you will make French knots to turn them into flowers.

To finish, Silvia will give you some tips to assemble your finished embroidery in a mini rack.

You will realize three projects with different levels of difficulty, to learn how to make different effects with thread on the fabric.

To all the people who have an interest in drawing with thread and a lot of curiosity to create authentic miniature pieces.

To complete this course you will need basic knowledge of drawing, although it is not essential.

On materials, you will need an embroidery frame of the smallest possible size, embroidery needles # 7 or greater, cloth canvases, embroidery threads mouliné , sharp-edged scissors and other materials that Silvia will explain.