Transparent embroidery

It has only been a few weeks since Charles began to experiment with how to embroider on tulle. If you’ve never embroidered on tulle before it can be tricky to know how to start. This is especially due to the transparent and fragile nature of the tulle fabric…

Goldwork is traditionally used to attire liturgic, military and royal clothes and objects. Nowadays, it is used in Haute-Couture, luxury watchmaking, design and interior decoration.

Have you ever heard of transparent embroidery? It is a beautiful method where the canvas is transparent. That makes the design the main focus. It is quite lovely and it is becoming more and more popular. You can purchase kits … Read More...

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Olga Prinku

By using Habu stainless steel silk, copper bamboo and other fibers to create the sculptural effects in warps and wefts for this Saori woven piece I wove An ethereal tranparent fabric. It all started with winding a warp out of stainless steel core thread size silk yarn from Japan. Because of the unusual hand of the fiber instead of chaining off the warp from the warping frame I used my skein winder to gently reel off the 11 yards. Sleying the reed then threading and beaming on the loom are…

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Australian artist Meredith Woolnough creates impressively delicate embroideries inspired by natural forms like leaves, and coral...

Embroidery has been around forever — the earliest surviving pieces of this craft are Scythian, dated to between the 5th and 3rd centuries BCE. Virtually every culture has some form of it in their textile art history.