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As part of our ongoing series exploring traditional and contemporary hand embroidery techniques, weโve created this guide to thread painting. Traditionally known as silk shading, we’re here to explore one of the most refined and painterly forms of stitch. Across this series, we examine not only how techniques are worked,
Karen Turner is a textile artist who stitches more than just fabricโshe stitches memories, time, and emotion into every piece she creates. With a background steeped in both the arts and academia, she has seamlessly blended her love of hand-stitching with an intuitive, almost meditative approach to textile work. Raised
Appliquรฉ is a versatile and effective technique used throughout textiles. Many students come to us because they want to advance their appliquรฉ techniques. So, before we delve into theย different appliquรฉย techniques and methods of appliquรฉ, we’ll be taking you through the basics. We’ll be looking atย how to appliquรฉย by hand, how to
Yes we’ve been at it again. We’ve trawled the internet, read reviews and marvelled longingly at the stunning images, to bring you our latest list of the most recent book releases. With this list, we’ve tried to cover every subject we offer here at the School of Stitched Textiles. So,
I came across a good blog post today called How to Sew Faster:7 tips for sewing more efficiently. Whilst I think many of the ideas are great – I particularly like the one about preparing small projects to undertake whilst you’re waiting for pasta to cook (!) – I have
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