Guided Course: Create Embroidery with Dried Flowers on Tulle
Podcast: Sentimental Herbariums: From Scientific Archive to Artistic Gesture
A guided course by Olga Prinku , Embroidery Artist
About the video: Podcast: Sentimental Herbariums: From Scientific Archive to Artistic Gesture
Overview
“This reflection explores how the herbarium, once a scientific archive, becomes a poetic act of memory. Discover how artists transform pressed flowers into delicate embroideries—where each stitch honors fragility, presence, and emotion. Nature, reimagined through thread and tulle, becomes a quiet language of remembrance and artistic expression.”
In this video lesson Olga Prinku addresses the topic: Podcast: Sentimental Herbariums: From Scientific Archive to Artistic Gesture, which is part of the Domestika online course: Guided Course: Create Embroidery with Dried Flowers on Tulle. Create intricate tulle embroidery with dried flowers, mastering techniques for botanical designs, color harmony, and composition.
Partial transcription of the video
“Some objects begin as tools and end up as symbols. The herbarium, for instance. was once a scientific method Precise, archival, structured. But nature has a way of slipping into more personal realms. A pressed flower can become a message, a memory. A Quiet Poem In this Domestika podcast, we explore how the Botanical Archive becomes an artistic gesture how the act of preserving a plant turns into a delicate embroidery of remembrance. The first herbariums emerged out of scientific necessity. During the Renaissance, when cataloguing nature was a vital pursuit, Naturalists began collecting, dry...”
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Course summary for: Guided Course: Create Embroidery with Dried Flowers on Tulle
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DIY, Embroidery, Floral & Plant Design, Textile Design
Olga Prinku
A guided course by Olga Prinku
Olga Prinku is a Moldavian embroidery artist, currently living in the UK countryside. While studying graphic design at the Cumbria Institute of the Arts in England, she discovered her love for crafts through upholstery, jewelry making, and screen printing courses. She then started experimenting with embroidery and organic materials, and quickly gained wide recognition on social media, with almost 200K followers on Instagram.
Olga has collaborated with brands like Anthropologie, 3.PARADIS, Ruth Eaton London and Swarovski. Her flowers-on-tulle work has been featured in a range of online, print and televised media internationally. From Casa Facile in Italy to Architectural Digest in the US. She has also published her own book on the craft: Dried Flower Embroidery: An Introduction to the Art of Flowers on Tulle.
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