The Rise of Floral Fashion Embroidery – And How to Do It Yourself | Machine Embroidery
If you’ve been paying attention to fashion trends at all, or even just walked into a mall lately, you’ll notice one trend that’s everywhere… floral
If you’ve been paying attention to fashion trends at all, or even just walked into a mall lately, you’ll notice one trend that’s everywhere… floral
In spending time with friendly home embroidery enthusiasts, I see differences in practice from my commercial roots; one (relatively) recent development was the rise of ‘floating’.
Color and light spring to life in Anne Waller’s unique textile art. Under the name Heatherwell Designs, she creates a variety of creative works, including
Having a goodly amount of contact with newcomers to the embroidery community gives me ample opportunities to ‘talk down’ people on the verge of giving
One of the areas that machine embroidery is really flourishing is in the hands of talented costume and cosplay designers the world over. Where before
My first experiences with machine embroidery and digitizing didn’t happen behind a computer; they happened at the machine. The old multi-head machines I first learned
There are as many different forms of freemotion machine embroidery as there are artists who practice it … and in the hands of London textile
I am often surprised on first contact with many craft and home embroiderers by the expectations that they have of commercial embroidery as the place
The main goal of artist Rachel Wright is, as she states it, “to delight the eye.” She uses rich color, paint, and intricate freestyle machine
For Scottish designer Laura Lees, more is definitely more. Lees creates in a wide range of modes, from fashion to furniture to custom pieces and
I’m a pretty positive person. I try not to let myself get too heated up about little things; That’s why it’s hard sometimes for me
If you’ve never heard of Gothic Lolita, Wikipedia has the broad but somewhat underwhelming definition of a “fashion subculture originating in Japan that is based on