
Vintage embroidery on handbags (master class)
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Now many people have become aware of such a concept asVintage, which characterizes the fashion direction. In vintage understanding, a sufficiently capacious value is imbedded, meaning a trend for everything that was fashionable up to a hundred years ago. Vintage embroidery is characteristic of its retrostyle, that is, the creation of things, paintings and accessories with the help of various ancient drawings, stitches, techniques and so on. In general, its essence is to use the combination of color scales and techniques used by grandmothers-needlewomen.
Vintage handbags
Very fashionable became vintage handbags, whichWere popular with women in the twenties and thirties. They are created thanks to all sorts of techniques: a cross, a smooth surface, a bargello. The cross is embroidered with beautiful roses or geometric motifs, which were used for towels, individual details of clothing.
Various embroidered bouquets of flowers are embroidered with a glaze,Uncomplicated landscapes. Most works are done in Victorian or Oriental style. The technique of burgello or Florentine embroidery looks nice when making bags, reticules, purses, which are very bright, with blurry rainbow motifs.
Create a vintage handbag usingTechniques smooth With floral patterns, preferably in the style of the Victorian era, using the smooth surface, you can recreate any vintage accessory. Any fabric: silk, linen, cotton, velvet thanks to the skilful hands of the craftsman will turn into a perfect reticule, a small handbag - a clutch or just a purse.
The main stages of work when embroidering a picture:
The process of making bags:

According to the previously acquired lock for the bag,In the form of a frame, make a pattern-drawing on the fabric. They encircle the future lock of the bag, divide the resulting drawing into several identical parts. Best of all in three parts;
Vintage burgello style embroidery
A colorful rainbow, a dancing flame, is so calledBurgello embroidery. Vintage burgello style embroidery is very simple to perform, but very bright and beautiful. Its main principle is to embroider simple rows of zigzags, located depending on the color scale.
Features and preparations
Embroidery rows are located in a certainThe original order. Each of them runs parallel to the previous one and observes a zigzag line. The rows of stitches are repeated after a certain period in accordance with the color scheme. The embroidered zigzag can have different dimensions, since everything depends on the location of the subsequent stitches and the number of threads in one seam. But all the stitches in traditional vintage burgello style embroidery are of equal length.
For burgel embroidery, a special canvas is prepared with a rare, but a single weave. Fabric for such a canvas can be made of linen, wool, cotton. Suitable and plastic canvas with a rare cage.
The main stages of work in vintage embroidery bargello:

On the prepared fabric, a special designed pattern with a marking for future stitches is applied with a marker. We put the fabric on a machine or embroidery frame;
The main distinguishing feature of such a uniqueEmbroidery - its pattern or pattern. The embroidery of the bargello technique resembles to many a dancing flame or a fire flower, so some craftsmen call it a torch flame. There are several varieties of these patterns: zigzag, wavy lines, flame, northern lights, medallion, mirror, cathedral, wicker.
Embroidery of this vintage technique is beautifulLooks on cosmetic bags, cases for mobile phone, purse, clutch, decorative pillows, blankets and some details of clothes. For covers and beauticians should choose a canvas with a small cage, and the thread is best silk or cotton floss. For pillows and rugs it is better to choose a large canvas and the same thread, for example, iris or thin thread, but in a few additions.
Working in the style of vintage embroidery is quite simple. All products made in a retro style, now find their application, both in the interior, and in clothing, accessories, ornaments.
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