Tulle Embroidery with Natural Flowers and Plants
Preparing the Flowers
A course by Olga Prinku, Embroidery Artist
About the video: Preparing the Flowers
Overview
“This is the lesson in which you will learn how to handle the flowers and their delicate stalks. I will show you how to assess the thickness and flexibility of stalks, which vary across different kinds of plants and flowers. You will also see how best to trim the stems and what is the right length to trim them to.”
In this video lesson Olga Prinku addresses the topic: Preparing the Flowers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Tulle Embroidery with Natural Flowers and Plants. Let your creativity blossom by embroidering complex botanical compositions using dry flowers, foliage and natural materials.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, I will show you how to handle flowers. how to assess the thickness of the stems as well as their flexibility. and how to trim them and clean them before they're ready to be used in your work. So you will notice that all the flowers that I've shown you so far and that you will be working in the future have a variety of stem thicknesses. anything from less than one millimeter thick is generally the grasses. You can see. how thin they are. to quite thick two three millimeter thickness And these are generally the seed pods. The ideal size really is dependent on the size of the n...”
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Course summary for: Tulle Embroidery with Natural Flowers and Plants
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DIY, Embroidery, Floral & Plant Design, Textile Design
Olga Prinku
A course by Olga Prinku
Olga Prinku is a Moldavian embroidery artist, currently living in the UK countryside. While studying graphic design at the Cumbria Institute of the Arts in England, she discovered her love for crafts through upholstery, jewelry making, and screen printing courses. She then started experimenting with embroidery and organic materials, and quickly gained wide recognition on social media, with almost 200K followers on Instagram.
Olga has collaborated with brands like Anthropologie, 3.PARADIS, Ruth Eaton London and Swarovski. Her flowers-on-tulle work has been featured in a range of online, print and televised media internationally. From Casa Facile in Italy to Architectural Digest in the US. She has also published her own book on the craft: Dried Flower Embroidery: An Introduction to the Art of Flowers on Tulle.
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