Embroidery Technique with the Back Stitch
Influences
A course by Gimena Romero , Artist and Researcher
About the video: Influences
Overview
“I will tell you how it was that the need arose to go deeper at the laboratory level from a single point. What do I mean by engraving / embroidery and the importance of technical excellence in textiles from a walk through the work of different artists.”
In this video lesson Gimena Romero addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Embroidery Technique with the Back Stitch. Learn to create unique images using just one embroidery stitch.
Partial transcription of the video
“Now I want to show you how others use the line, I think it can be quite interesting. She's Nadine Reilly, lives in Australia. This is her Instagram, follow it as @threadmeadows. She's a very versatile artist, but I want to look at is this kind of thing. She has these very simple embroideries, totally linear, see how pretty they are. It's super simple, it's black on a blanket. The only thing she does is a good use of the stitch. Besides the stem stitch, here she's used French stitches. The pots here are also done with the stem stitch. The rest is open string and this is "couching", but I'm i...”
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Course summary for: Embroidery Technique with the Back Stitch
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Embroidery, Textile Design
Gimena Romero
A course by Gimena Romero
Gimena Romero is an artist and writer based between Mexico City and Barcelona. She trained in various schools in Mexico, Spain, and France and has received multiple awards and mentions internationally.
Her work has been displayed in various exhibitions in countries like Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, France, Portugal, Ukraine, and Spain. She has several publications under her belt in the areas of narrative, poetry, and textile research with Thule Ediciones and Editorial Gustavo Gili. Her book Hebra de Agua was awarded Book of the Year at the 2016 Teixim la Ciutat festival in Catalonia.
She has also conducted research into embroidery and the body with Lausín embroidery at the UNAM Faculty of Arts and Design in Mexico. She loves life, dogs, and biscuits.
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