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Using just a single stitch for all your painting were somewhat negative I must admit. I step by step instructions of how to construct a Very, it turned out.
embroidery art probably sounds like quite a dull was on a three-year apprenticeship at The Royal stitch, or you plan a design inserting different I found that I loved that I could make an area of
way of working for those textile artists and School of Needlework and had no choice about stitches, materials or thread types to achieve the stitching the exact colour I needed by placing
embroiderers that embellish their stitching with learning it and I probably would not have if left desired effect, with thread painting it was just one stitch of a colour next to another just as a
an array of complex stitches, textures, thread to my own devices. one straight stitch which magically (it seemed) painter mixes his paints on a palette.
and media. Not for me though, I am very happy I loved the variety and texture of crewel work produced a thread painting, it felt very daunting. Obviously, you are restricted somewhat in your
with just one stitch: long and short. stitches, the mathematical style of counted I could not get my head around the concept; it colour palette by the limited number of
Of all the hand embroidery techniques for some blackwork patterns, and the formal rules of was all a little bit too ‘free’ and technically commercially available threads but this idea of
reason I am drawn to painting with thread in the metal thread embroidery. Yes, it gave the most challenging, in my opinion compared to what I producing more colours in your work just by
traditional long and short stitch style. beautiful results but whereas with other had learnt so far on the course. thread placement was a new concept for me in
My first thoughts about learning thread embroidery techniques where you follow the How wrong could I be on my first impressions? my embroidery, previous to that in my training