Guided Project: Punch Needle Portrait from Photo

Overview

“In this lesson, we’ll cover how to stretch your canvas, what fabrics work best, and transferring your image to your canvas.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Prepping Your Canvas and Image Transfer, which is part of the Domestika online course: Guided Project: Punch Needle Portrait from Photo. Create textured embroidered portraits using punch needle technique with essential tools, explore creative methods, and share your art.

Partial transcription of the video

“Prepping your canvas + image transfer Now it's time to stretch our canvas. What I prefer to do is to get a store-bought, pre-stretched canvas, take a utility knife, cut it off, and use a pair of pliers to get all those staples out. But keep the corner staples in, because those keep the frame together. You'll have something like this. I'm gonna show you how to stretch that now. Alright, we have here our linen weaver's cloth, which is what I prefer to use, and we have about two inches clearance all around. You'll want that for leverage because we're going to be tugging on this part of the fab...”

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Course summary for: Guided Project: Punch Needle Portrait from Photo

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (2)
• 205 students
• 1 unit
• 7 lessons (1h 27m)
• 12 downloads

• Category

  Craft

• Areas

  Embroidery, Punch Needle, Textile Design