|
Silk and Metal Thread Classes |
|
I currently offer classes in Silk and Metal Thread embroidery. To see the details, click on the class title or the picture for the class you'd like to see. |
|
A beginning silk and metal thread embroidery; designed for the student who is interested in silk and metal embroidery, but not acquainted with the techniques. The techniques are simple but yield a striking effect. |
|
Butterfly Circle is silk and metal thread embroidery on Congress Cloth. The design uses a variety of silk and metallic threads and seed beads. It measures approximately 10” x 10”. |
|
The basket is reminiscent of baskets of flowers that one might find in an appliquéd quilt of long ago. It is filled with simply shaped flowers and grasses, using simple stitches. The flowers are made of seed beads, pearl, rough and check purl cut to fit. |
|
The Acanthus leaf was a favorite motif for the great 19th century artisan William Morris. It is intertwining a ribbon of brightly colored silk flowers, outlined with gold threads. |
|
Petite Arabesque is a small project in the Arabesque series. Techniques in this exercise are the most basic techniques of couching metal threads, satin stitch using both silk and a metal twist, laidwork and the outline stitch using metal threads. Measures 4.75" x 3.75" |
|
Golden Butterfly is designed for the beginner. It is worked on congress cloth. A variety of metal thread techniques mixed with canvas stitches and silk will be explored. Beads and pailettes will also be attached. |
|
The stylized tulip chosen for this embroidery exercise is adapted from a pattern by King Louis XIV’s Court Embroiderer, Saint-Aubin. In the time of Louis XIV tulips were considered the ultimate of flowers. The piece is worked in gold threads on a blue silk foundation. |
|
A small piece is a wonderful way to introduce beginning techniques in silk and metal thread embroidery. The butterfly uses several techniques and threads in a very small space. |
|
In Florida during late summer through fall dragonflies abound. The most abundant are the large copper ones. They flash copper metallic bodies and gossamer wings as they flit and rest on plants in our gardens. In this class you will create your own dragonfly |
|
Create a detached leaf in silk and metal thread techniques, and apply it to the ground embroidery, a silk and metal thread embroidery on Congress Cloth. The leaf is stitched on a gold cotton ground fabric. |
|
A silk/metal organza overlays the white congress cloth, giving the embroidery a glow and luster than enhances the embroidery techniques embellishing it. The periwinkle blue flower’s petals are padded with card. This piece is designed for beginners to intermediate stitchers |
|
Tulips have fascinated Westerners since their discovery in the Sultan’s gardens in the 1500s. Their image is found in art, tapestries, and embroideries since that time. Our goal is to create fantastical, stylized tulips in rich golds and silks on silk satin befitting the plant’s long history and the Sultan’s garden |
|
In this class you will create your very own pagoda. Pagoda in Blue is influenced by the Blue and White porcelain of China. Pagoda is a monochromatic color study. The pagoda and surrounding motifs are embellished in the pallet of a single color family. The ground is Congress cloth. |
|
Create this beautiful bird using silk and metal thread techniques on silk. Techniques are satin stitch, shading techniques, outline, and applying spangle, and bead., French knots, metal thread techniques of couching, chipping, and Italian shading. Padding with felt will be studied. |
|
Tulips have fascinated Westerners since their discovery. Their image is found in art, tapestries, and embroideries since that time. In this class, our goal is to create a fantastical, stylized tulip in rich gold metals/metallic, and red silk on black congress cloth. |
