Tag: #embroidery

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Meet the Artist – Catriona Charlton

A little textile inspiration from my YouTube Textile Collection. Today it features the beautiful Costume Design & Embroidery of Catriona Charlton. Filmed at Knitting & Stitching Show 2019.

Catriona explains how she designs & creates her detailed costumes for film & TV. She shares the process she utilised to develop the costume for ‘Brimstone’ – a character from ‘Daughter of Smoke and Bone’ by Laini Taylor – she shares her samples which include a variety of needlework techniques such as digital embroidery, hand & free-machine embroidery, crochet, smocking, goldwork & beading. Catriona received an Embroiderers’ Guild Graduate 2019 Award & exhibited at New Designers 2019 in London.

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Meet the Artist – Karina Thompson

A little textile inspiration from my YouTube Textile Collection. Today it features the digital machine embroidery of Karina Thompson. Filmed at The Festival of Quilts 2019.

Textile artist, Karina, embraces digital data & digital technology in her work. She explains how she uses Photoshop, digital embroidery, free motion long arm quilting & digital print onto fabric, to create her uniquely embroidered textile art.

Karina’s “1 hour’s production = 1.5 miles = 15 lengths” large embroidered piece was part of the ‘Cloth and Memory 2’ exhibition at Salts Mill, Saltaire. It is stitched on woollen cloth woven in Yorkshire.

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Meet the Artist – Rosie Gee

A little textile inspiration from my YouTube Textile Collection. Today it features the beautiful hand embroidery and beadwork of Rosie Gee. Filmed at Knitting & Stitching Show 2019.

Couture Embroiderer, Rosie Gee, guides us through her sketch book & explains the design process she takes from creating an initial sketch through to hand stitching the embellishment. Rosie is a recent graduate specialising in couture hand embroidery and is amongst the 25 international finalists of the Hand & Lock Prize For Embroidery 2019 for emerging hand embroidery talent in fashion and textiles. Recipient of an Embroiderers’ Guild Graduate Award 2019/20 and a graduate from BCU Textile Design currently working at Ralph & Russo.