Embroidery Technique with the Back Stitch
In continuous loop
A course by Gimena Romero , Artist and Researcher
About the video: In continuous loop
Overview
“We will see how to make conscious filling without having to finish and how to make a closed figure limit. Do not forget that, if you work from the top down, you should always hold the thread on the left side or your loops will lose rhythm and continuity, otherwise your filling will not be uniform.”
In this video lesson Gimena Romero addresses the topic: In continuous loop, 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
“How to make a continuous filling? If you set from of what I have explained, to have the loops in this sense, is important to have the thread on the left side. This forces us to finish at the base and start a new line at the top, if we want to make a fill of one line next to another. This is how the filling with linear points, here, with a step back. To avoid having to start here, go down, finish and start over here, go down and finish, stopping the left side thread so that the loops are same side and do not get stuck, which is what we want to avoid now. I'm going to make three lines so they...”
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Course summary for: Embroidery Technique with the Back Stitch
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Areas
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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