
Embroidery stitch types and performance technique (photo and video)
Content
- Appliances and tools for embroidery
- How to prepare for embroidery
- Embroidery white embroidery
- Video: white satin-stitch embroidery on fabrics and organza
- Volume satin stitch
- Variety embroidery embroidery
- How to embroider the leaves and flowers embroidery (workshop)
- Vladimir seam
- Video: Learning to embroider embroidery
even today is in great demand andpopularity. This is the most demanded kind of crafts among young people and the older generation. Mastering the technique of embroidery embroidery allow needle women get the original patterns. They will help to decorate clothing or parts of it. Embroidery has always helped to bring a touch of elegance to the house, furnishings, toys for young children, clothing, underwear and many other things.
Appliances and tools for embroidery
To get started you need to be well prepared. To do this, you should pay attention to the following tools:
How to prepare for embroidery
Putting figure
When starting needlework, you need to choosesuitable drawings. They are often published in books and magazines. Future patterns can be easily and quickly copied using a transparent sheet of paper, tracing paper or carbon paper.
If tracing paper is used during the preparatory process, it should be placed on top of the selected picture. Drawings and patterns are outlined with a pencil strictly along the contour.
If there is no tracing paper in the house, but there is opaque andthe paper is quite thick, then more experienced needlewomen advise using carbon paper. To transfer all the necessary drawings, take a blank sheet of paper, then put a carbon copy and a drawing on top. The entire listed structure must be securely fastened with paper clips, pins and buttons. All necessary drawings and patterns must be drawn strictly along the lines. The embroidery process is carried out as carefully as possible to prevent the sheet of thick or carbon paper from shifting.
Preparatory work
The history of satin embroidery goes back toearly 17th century. Even then, needlewomen used the technique presented below to decorate not only household items, but also their own clothes. Today, in order to start embroidery, you need to properly and carefully prepare all the tools and materials.
It is best to read the history of embroidery in order to understand the depth and meaning of this type of needlework. The main secrets of the preparatory work:
Embroidery white embroidery
White surface is in great demand amongneedlewomen It must be remembered that before starting work, you must first apply the design to the working fabric. White satin stitch is a special technique where exclusively white threads are used. In this case, only thin types of fabric are used.
The type of technique where white satin stitch is used canclosely intertwined using knots, holes, hemstitching, understitching, as well as other various types of sewing. It was the Vladimir region that became the main place where white surface began to be used.
To create paintings, floral motifs, bouquets, and garlands are most often used.
Video: white satin-stitch embroidery on fabrics and organza
Volume satin stitch
Volumetric satin embroidery Volumetric satin embroideryis an ancient type of needlework. It was quite widespread in Western Europe. Drawings such as plant and flower arrangements, animals, and people look most attractive when finished. You can say that they are alive.
satin stitch includes a unique effect that is achieved through the use of a special seam.
Today, volumetric embroidery is classified as follows:
Variety embroidery embroidery
Satin smooth surface
Hatched surface
Counted stitch
Chinese satin stitch embroidery Today, many needlewomen prefer
, because the finished patterns look beautiful and attractive. The following types of satin embroidery can be distinguished:
“Forward needle” seam technique
The presented technology includesa certain sequence of stitches that are located strictly along the contour lines. It can have any shape, that is, straight or curved. Volumetric satin stitch can be made using such a seam.
The presented seam can be slightly varied if a thread of a different or one-color color is passed under the stitches. When the work is completed, you can see a kind of wave.
Loop stitch
Volumetric surface using
performed in the direction from left to right whenby moving the needle from top to bottom. At the beginning of the work, it is necessary to outline several parallel lines that limit the stitches in height. If you are using a thick fabric that includes a well-defined line of thread, you do not need to baste it.
- strand derived strictly on the front side in the lower parts of the seam;
- Next, you need to perform stitch, with the needle should be in the direction from top to bottom, and the thread will remain under the needle;
- working thread should be tightened so that there was a loop.
How to embroider the leaves and flowers embroidery (workshop)
On the expanses of our website you can find a variety of designs and patterns of flowers, petals and other ornaments. Below is a detailed master class that will tell you how to embroider patterns and designs using satin stitch.
Vladimir seam
Vladimir embroideryVladimir seam is embroideredonly with large stitches along the canvas, which should go strictly from the edges to the center of the pattern, and in the opposite direction. It is worth noting that the sequence of this seam is to fasten the thread only on the front side. It should be located exclusively in the lower parts of the contour that is sheathed.
Vladimir seamIn the end result you needachieve the location of the stitches at a small distance from each other on the front side of the work. the reverse side should look a little different, that is, the embroidery should resemble rows of small stitches that represent a dotted line along the contour of the pattern.
Video: Learning to embroider embroidery