Embroidery Techniques: Illustrating with Needle and Thread
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A course by Yolanda Andrés, Designer, Craft Artist, and Embroiderer
About the video: materials
Overview
“The first thing that I am going to tell you is the materials that I use and to give you some recommendation about them. For me the materials are tremendously important.”
In this video lesson Yolanda Andrés addresses the topic: materials, which is part of the Domestika online course: Embroidery Techniques: Illustrating with Needle and Thread. Learn to illustrate any image with a variety of embroidery techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“So now... I am going to tell you about the materials we will use in this course. I will show you what I have. but you don't need to have them. as some are very old and hard to find. You can use what you have at home. meaning you don't need to buy everything. So. we are going to work with cotton threads. specifically from the DMC brand. which I find reliable. These threads consist of six strands. and I'll demonstrate how to separate them. They resemble these. but once they unravel. we need to wind them onto these types of bobbins to keep them organized and ready for use. We'll incorporate a ...”
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Course summary for: Embroidery Techniques: Illustrating with Needle and Thread
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Embroidery, Textile Design
Yolanda Andrés
A course by Yolanda Andrés
Yolanda Andrés studied fine art and graphic design at the Universidad de Salamanca, as well as painting at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles in Belgium. She also obtained a master’s in packaging from the Instituto Europeo di Design (IED) in Madrid.
Before focusing exclusively on embroidery, she served as art director for a communication agency for more than a decade. She currently runs her own workshop in the Lavapiés neighborhood of Madrid where she works on pieces for brands and institutions like Carolina Herrera, Zubi, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum shop. Additionally, Yolanda teaches classes at IED and the Escuela Superior de Diseño (ESD) in Madrid.
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