Vintage embroidery on handbags (master class)

Vintage embroidery on handbags (master class)

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Nowadays, many people have become familiar with such a concept asvintage, which characterizes a fashion trend. The concept of vintage has a fairly capacious meaning, meaning a trend for everything that was fashionable up to a hundred years ago. Vintage embroidery is characterized by its retro style, that is, the creation of things, paintings and accessories using various old patterns, stitches, techniques, and so on. In general, its essence is to use those combinations of color schemes and techniques that were once 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 bouquets of flowers are embroidered with satin stitch,simple landscapes. Mostly the works are done in Victorian or oriental style. The Bargello technique or Florentine embroidery looks nice when making bags, reticules, purses, which turn out very bright, with blurred 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 pattern:

  • On pre-prepared fabric: clean and ironed, using a copy paper or prepared drawn individual parts, apply a special marker pattern. Insert it into the frame;
  • Fold the thread in two and begin to embroider the technique of smoothing the art. It is necessary to select the central part of the flower and the stalk with a stitch, gradually fill the applied pattern;
  • Threads are better to choose bright, if possible, then silk. Individual parts of the flower can be distinguished by edging from other threads in color or thin silvery cords, lurex;
  • The edging of the parts is made with the seam "needle forward";
  • After the drawing is completely embroidered, it is removed from the hoop, steamed and if necessary washed.

    • The process of making bags:


  • According to the previously purchased lock forbags, in the form of a frame, make a pattern-drawing on the fabric. Outline the future lock of the bag, divide the resulting drawing into several identical parts. It is best to divide it into three parts;
  • From the points at which the central part of the drawing ends, add angles equal to thirty degrees on each side. This is the first detail of the bag;
  • From the fabric where the pattern was embroidered, cut out aThe second, symmetrical part. As a lining choose a different fabric, make a pattern. You can use the already finished parts as a curtain, but three to five centimeters, making them smaller;
  • Each part is connected and sewed together. Take the threads are the same in color as the main fabric and sew the details of the bag together, sew beads and additional decor. Attach a frame lock to the purse. To it fasten a chain and a suspension bracket.

    • 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 preparatory work

    The rows of embroidery are arranged in a certain wayoriginal order. Each of them goes parallel to the previous one and follows a zigzag line. Rows of stitches are repeated at certain intervals according to the color scheme. The embroidered zigzag can have different dimensions, since everything depends on the location of subsequent stitches and the number of threads in one seam. But all stitches in traditional vintage embroidery in the Bargello style are made of the same length.
    For bargello embroidery, a special canvas with a rare but single weave is prepared. The fabric for such a canvas can be made of linen, wool, cotton. A plastic canvas with a rare check will also do.
    The main stages of work in vintage bargello embroidery:


  • The intended pattern with markings for future stitches is applied to the prepared fabric using a special marker. The fabric is stretched onto a machine or hoop;
  • Embroider follows from a certain edge, which is more convenient. The first row is laid strictly on the pattern. In this series, all subsequent ones will be guided;
  • Fix the thread on the wrong side or on the front side, so that the next stitches close the left tip;
  • The needle is inserted into the fabric on the wrong side diagonally and opens to the front side, laying the first horizontal stitch. The next stitch starts from the top of the previous one;
  • Make the marked vertical stitches in the direction: from right to left or from left to right, constantly preserving one direction;
  • The main thing is that the stitches in this technique fit tightly to each other, do not leave empty places and do not stretch the thread excessively, so that there is no excessive tension.


    • The main distinguishing feature of such a uniqueembroidery - its pattern or design. Bargello embroidery reminds many of a dancing flame or a fiery flower, which is why some craftsmen call it torch embroidery. There are several varieties of these patterns: zigzag, wavy lines, flame, northern lights, medallion, mirror, cathedral, woven.
    Embroidery using this vintage technique is beautifullooks good on cosmetic bags, mobile phone cases, wallets, clutches, decorative pillows, blankets and some clothing items. For cases and cosmetic bags, you should choose a canvas with a small check, and the threads are best silk or cotton floss. For pillows and blankets, it is better to choose a large canvas and the same thread, for example, iris or thin threads, but in several folds.
    It is not difficult at all to work in the style of vintage embroidery. All products made in a retro manner are now used both in the interior and in clothing, accessories, and jewelry.

    Video: Vintage cross stitch




     

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