Variegated Embroidery
Beautiful Couture – Creative Carpets
If you are looking for a lifetime hobby that is easy to transport, work meets the criteria very well.
From antiquity to the present, work has played a large role in society. Many pieces of art continue to adorn the walls of homes around the world, many hundreds of years after its creation.
Couture covers aspects of handmade embroidery, embroidery, Bargello, Cross Stitch on the needle lace to name a few. There are many avenues to explore more. It can be carried in a bag and stitched in the most unlikely places.
The label 'Tapestry' but now mistakenly associated with a canvas of work, is best known as woven on a loom.
From toddlers to seniors, needlework satisfies a need for many of us creative. We enjoyed the hours spent working the stitches on the fabric and the creation of the design in different colors and threads.
With my own experience of the seam, the first job I remember was a needlecase, worked on canvas in a very simple Bargello design. It hung for many years before to finally get lost in busy-ness of life.
How do you decide what kind of needle to work? Trial and error. Try different types and see what you like more, so that one will open their creativity. It may be the smallest of incentives that can lead in one direction or another – a photo of a famous work, chatting with someone who turned an interest, a sample of opportunity to work in the filing. Whatever the inspiration, go with it, nurture it and learn more about their needlework chosen. And if that does not quite fit the bill – and try to replace it.
Some years ago I discovered what is called in Australia "Creative Tapestry, the art of creating a 3D image with different stitches and threads. I made a "beginners course to learn the basics, and went away. Some of the topics include embroidered cotton, Pearle, Madeira (a bright thread), Medici (fine wool), wool, yarn flowers (a thin cotton tea), and soft cotton (a thick wire cotton mate). Then you have a 'proprietary' thread – dyed by hand, varied, a mixture of two different threads to create a specific aspect.
The possibilities are endless, limited only by your imagination. What can create threads, and hundreds of colors is amazing.
My first attempt was a mare and foal at sunset. Use Pearle number 8 (thick), Pearle Number 4 (finer) soft cotton, cotton embroidery and stranded, I created a realistic picture. The points used were continental stitch, reverse stitch Continental straight and candlewicking. It is a very simple plan "to start, but as one becomes more experienced, the level of difficulty increases.
With "traditional" uses a single tapestry wool, and is a graphic or pre-printed canvas. Creative Carpet requires a plan "to make. The easiest way to start is to buy a fabric printed with a fairly simple design. Then sit back and watch. Enjoy of all colors, shapes and areas. Create a picture in your mind's eye of how it will look when sewn with threads of some stitches and then reach written work plan below. You will find you need many more colors than the traditional sewing and shading on the scene, along with many different threads. A color chart of all threads is a need, then as you go write the colors as well as the type of thread and stitches to use.
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Where I can find red / black variegated Embroidery Thread?
I am embroidering a vest and have a metallic sheen.
As for M48 color on this site I can find the 60wt http://valdani.com/products.php?OpenPage=ProductsList&GroupID=76 have a little shine, although it is still 100% cotton. It is not metal. It may not be what your looking for but wow what great combination, definitely Red and Black!
