Shaped string padding for goldwork embroidery | Hand embroidery video tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- In this video Sarah shows how to apply string padding to give extra shape and dimension to your goldwork embroidery, ready for stitching metals or threads over.
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you ate a wonderful teacher thank you
I am not a beginner beginner, but i am learning so much with your videos. Your explanations are so thorough & pleasant.
So informative! Thank you for being such a great teacher.
Sarah, you are a treasure. Thank you so much for this detailed demo and explanation.
I'm glad I found your channel. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the great explanation.♥️
Liked & subscribed already my lady, Thank you so much for sharing..
This has been so informative and a pleasure to watch. Your style is comfortable and relaxed and yet professional.
I now have to go and unpick my couch work lettering and do it correctly! 😃
I like what you said in the previous video: the final work can only be as good as the underlying preparation. The care and precision you are laying down here has a real beauty of its own. You are a wonderful old-school needlewoman; you could have worked the coronation robes of Elizabeth I.
You can see from this video that if you don't get your padding right then the gold isn't going to look right either. I don't think Elizabeth I had coronation robes but thank you for the compliment! We did study the Queen Mother's coronation robe at Kensington Palace as part of our apprenticeship. We had to take elements of it and make and stitch our own design for our advanced goldwork module. There is a collection video of this piece coming!
I will so look forward to seeing that! I meant the first Elizabeth and her gown and mantle in the portrait they think was copied around 1600, the one where she's wearing her red hair all down her shoulders. I found out some interesting things when I checked it; I didn't know that mantle was worn by her sister Mary at her coronation. But anyway, I think you could work on anything and create enduring beauty.
I am loving trying goldwork thank you for all the tips
Another awesome video, thanks so much.
Have at last finished blanket (until next week!) and will make a start!
Thank you so much for sharing 🙏 it’s amazing!!! 😍 looking forward for more videos 💝
This is going to be so beautiful with the gold. Thank you for sharing.
I like your work thanks for sharing
Thank you so much for sharing all these videos
Omg i thought so hard to do, thank you for help
Easy when you know how!
Je regarde tous vos vidéos avec un grand plaisir j'adore😘😘😘
Thank you Radia!
Se ha ganado un premio a la paciencia.
Amazing video, thank you so much
How do you decide whether to use string padding, or layers of felt? Do you sometimes put felt over your string?
The string makes more dimensional padding and the felt makes softer shapes. You don't really need to put felt over the string but there might be instances where you use felt padding then put a row of string padding over the top (on a leaf for example) to add an extra dimension!
No criticism intended, but I was taught to use layers of gold colored felt for these bigger pieces, each one slightly smaller than the first to gain a 'rounded' height, stab stitched around the edge to hold it in place. Is there any more benefit using the string ?
They are two different techniques Helen! Check out our video on felt padding for goldwork; this gives more subtle rounded shapes whereas the string padding gives more defined, more raised shapes. If you want to get really fancy, you can use both together and work some felt padding first then put some string on top of it for a super moulded shape!
@@SarahHomfrayEmbroidery ok, thank you
A very useful video, thank you. One question please. When doing cutwork on a shape, like the S example in your other video, how do you maintain the 45 deg angle on the bends please? Thank you.
La señora es necesaria en el video ?!
What was the name of the tool you used to straighten the thread? Did you call it a malour?
It's called a Mellor Carol. See them here:
www.sarahhomfray.com/myshop/prod_6900645-Mellor-laying-tool-polished-stainless-steel.html
I'm absolutely useless when it comes to embroidery, but after watching your tutorials I thought I would give it another go 🤞
How would you do the padding for a circle, especially when it means to look more like a dome then a button? Would a piece of felt be better or can you do it with strings?
I'm sure you aren't useless at embroidery Marta! It's all about practice. I would do felt for a circular shape; you can build up layers of padding to raise the centre up and make a nice shape 👍
At the very end of the tapered (bottom) bit of the last piece it seemed that the padding did not come right down to the tip. Will the overlaid pieces sufficiently add to the end bit to bring it to an adequate level to balance out the finished piece?
Yes Roberta, you will see this in the next video. I think I did mention at the beginning that the padding has to be smaller than the finished size or your piece will grow!
Why do you need to cover the thread in beeswax? And can you use normal candlewax instead?
The gold metals especially can be very sharp so a coating of beeswax helps to protect the thread. Beeswax is best as it's a natural product, candles can have other things in them...
@@SarahHomfrayEmbroidery I see. Thanks for reply. :)
Hello Sarah, I can't seem to find the PDF of goldwork threads - am I missing something...duh?
Hello Anne, it's right at the top of this page: www.sarahhomfray.com/free-stuff.html
I'll add that link into the video's description.
Instead of using string padding which is way more time consuming, you can use a satin twisted ribbon rope which comes in a variety of color and you can either glue it with a few drops in the middle to the fabric, or you can sew by hand just to be secure on fabric and then you go in either with a thread or beads. This, as I can see, is very time-consuming, very nerve-wracking and there is no need for that, if you want a more dimensional effect more 3D effect use sating rope instead, sometimes I cut forms out of sponge used in cellphone boxes and I use that as padding. Also, you can use layers of felt on top of each other instead of only one layer and you will succeed in the same way.
I'm a trained Royal School of Needlework tutor and these methods are the methods historically used for this technique. It uses tried and tested materials that will last for hundreds of years, a philosophy of if you are going to make something, then make it the best that you can and to last (the foams used in packaging are designed for one time use and with green issues very much in everyone's minds will probably start to degrade pretty quickly). It's also a process that doesn't use glue which is never a great combo with embroidery. It's a very versatile technique as you can sculpt it by shaping and cutting away where desired. It's not time consuming when you learn how to do it and I'm not sure why it's nerve wracking either; if you don't do it right you can just cut if off which you can't do if you have glued it. Felt padding is a different technique used for different kinds of padded effects which we cover in other videos (and yes you can build this up with many layers as I explain in those). If you have some knowledge that you think would be useful to the stitching community then perhaps make a video and share with them as I have done? I'm sure people would be interested to see your techniques...
@@SarahHomfrayEmbroidery I like learning the old ways. Often we find they're the best ways! I was enraptured in your video. I've not seen this done before. Now I feel like I could try it.
The video is to fast and I can’t understand what do you say. I love so much your skills but I don’t know the instructions.
If you go to the video settings you can slow the speed down Lucy
Thank you. Yes, I did.