1. What Is Embroidery and What Are the Main Types of Embroidery?
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Learn about the infinite possibilities of this technique If we wanted to define it in the simplest way, we could say that embroidery is a technique that consists of using a needle and thread to decorate fabric. However, there is so much more to be said about this technique, which is enjoying something of a renaissance right now. What was once written off as an insignificant craft activity, embroidery is now recognized as its own art form. Learn more about this exciting activity, which you can start practicing right away.
2. 5 Free Classes: Tips for Packing Your Craft or Handmade Pieces
Craft and DIY professionals show you how to keep your creations safe during transfers If you love creating with your hands, you will know how fragile some of your most beloved pieces can be. This is especially true when you work, for example, with ceramics. However, the transfer of our creations is inevitable: either by the same creative process or because we want to put the objects in circulation, there is a moment when we will have to expose them. These 5 free classes allow you to discover how to protect and transport your pieces without unnecessary risks and taking care of every last detail. Learn from the experience of the experts. To watch each class, just click on its red title. Enjoy!
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3. Paper Craft Tutorial: How to Make Paper Petals
Learn this simple method for making paper craft petals, with Eileen Handmade Floral designs are part of the fabric of paper craft and a well-made petal is a simple and easy addition to bring charm to your creations. Eileen Ng, also known as Eileen Handmade, is a craft artist and maker dedicated to bringing the freshness and life of the outdoors inside. In this tutorial, she shares a simple technique for creating a daisy petal.
4. What is Crochet?
Learn about the origins of this artisan technique Not long ago, crochet was considered old-fashioned and unattractive. However, like many other crafts, this fiber art technique has recently been given a modern spin and thus a second life. Discover the types of personalized pieces you can create armed with thread and a crochet hook, such as clothing, accessories, toys, and decorations.
5. How to Make a French Knot
Learn to make a French knot, with Kseniia Guseva The French knot is one of the oldest, simplest, and most useful decorative stitches in embroidery. The technique is also known as the forbidden stitch: legend has it that, centuries ago, young Chinese women were not permitted to use the stitch because the fine embroidery it was used for in China would strain their eyesight. Today, in Europe, the stitch is not so delicate: it is typically used to fill particular areas of a piece such as the centers of flowers, or anywhere a single dot is required. Kseniia Guseva (@faimyxstitch) has been embroidering every day since 2016, creating stitchwork cityscapes—an interest shaped by the architecture of her hometown of Saint Petersburg—while also feeding her other passion: upcycling. In this tip, she shows us how to make a French knot:
6. Embroidery Tutorial: How to Transfer Your Design from Paper to Fabric
Learn how to transfer your illustration from paper to fabric using carbon copy paper, with Koral Antolin All you need is thread, a hoop, a needle, and a little patience to transform a blank canvas into a masterpiece. Embroidery is an entire world of different stitches, styles, and techniques, yet each piece begins the same way: a drawing on fabric. How can we get the best results when transferring the design? The answer is much simpler than you might have thought. The work of designer and embroiderer Koral Antolín (@koralantolin) fuses two of her great passions: drawing and embroidery. She is the founder and one of the creatives behind Fábrica de Imaginación and Studio.fi. Koral’s work combines embroidery stitches using a traditional neele and a Kantan needle to create unique portraits. In this tutorial, Koral Antolin will teach you how to transfer your illustration from paper to fabric using carbon copy paper for fabric, step by step. Discover more in the video below:
7. 10 Hand Embroidery Online Courses to Spark Your Creativity With Needle and Thread
Discover the possibilities of this craft technique to create amazing textile art with your hands With a worldwide renaissance of embroidery, contemporary creators are expanding the textile art horizons. From realistic textile illustration to abstract art, it offers countless creative possibilities. If you want to get started in embroidery, or you want to learn new techniques to create with your hands, these 10 embroiderers and experts in textile art will teach you step by step:
8. Needle Felting Tutorial: Tips For Conserving Your Work
Juanamatú shares three practical tips for keeping your felt toys in good condition Needle felting is a technique that involves felting wool with a barbed needle and sculpting it into different shapes. With a few materials, patience, and a lot of creativity, you can use this technique to make adorable toys to decorate your home. Katerin J Gómez–the creative mind behind @Juanamatú–is a needle felting toy artist who sculpts memories into decorative objects. She creates toys inspired by your pets, loved ones, and favorite characters. However, what is the best way to take care of these companions? In this tutorial, Katerin shares some practical tips for keeping your felt toys in good condition. You can watch the video below:
9. 20 Embroidery Books You Need in Your Reference Library
Textile artists recommend the embroidery books that helped them the most. Use them to find inspiration for your next projects There are plenty of embroidery resources online, but don’t overlook traditional books as sources of inspiration. You’ll discover new artists and see techniques, stitches, finishes, or materials in much more detail. We asked several textile artists to give us their favorite recommendations for embroidery books. What are yours? Let us know in the comments! Nayla Marc (@naylamarc) This designer and embroiderer based in Villa Ballester, Argentina, teaches the course Introduction to 3D embroidery. Among the books she enjoys most about the art of thread and needle are the following: The Embroidery Stitch Bible: Over 200 Stitches Photographed with Easy-to-Follow Charts, by Betty Barnden This is a reference guide for those who want to perfect their embroidery technique and learn new tricks. It includes basic stitches, such as the classic cross stitch, and more elaborate ones explained thoroughly. It has more than 200 techniques and stitches with enlarged diagrams and photographs.
10. 10 Amazing Handmade Projects That You Can Make Right Now
Discover Domestika’s Crafty Tuesdays live stream series and get inspired to craft your own DIY creations The Crafty Tuesdays series emerged as part of Domestika Live’s live stream series, where creatives specialized in craft, handmade, and DIY projects from different disciplines share with you their secrets and tips to create unique projects with your hands and answer questions from the audience. Here are ten of the top broadcasts from this series of handmade projects and some others you can make with the materials you have at home.
11. Free Download: Beaded Jewelry Guide to Create Your Own Patterns
Adapt this guide to create your own beaded jewelry designs Elsa and Dani are a duo of contemporary jewelry creators, founders of Fatto (@fatto), a creative studio. They create unique pieces that combine different techniques and materials, such as textiles, metals, and diverse pieces, such as beads. They believe that the process of creating pieces with your hands is also an act of personal care and affection.
12. Crochet Tutorial: How to Take Body Measurements For Pattern Making
Learn to take your own body measurements with Alimaravillas, and create a crochet pattern Before you start to crochet a piece of clothing, there’s an essential step: taking your body measurements. In order to get the right results–and to avoid ending up with a sweater that is too short or your head not fitting through the hole for your neck–it is essential to learn how to take measurements correctly. Alicia Recio Rodríguez, known as @alimaravillas, is an expert in crochet. In this tutorial, she talks us through how to take our own measurements without needing anyone else’s help so that we can create a pattern. You can watch the video below:
13. Materials: Beaded Jewelry
Discover which materials you can use to create original pieces of jewelry with Daniela Le Feuvre, co-founder of Fatto–a creative space dedicated to making accessories Beads are one of the most versatile items you can use to make jewelry. Thanks to their varying shapes and infinite colors, you’ll be able to find beads for all different designs. Elsa Amigo and Daniela Le Feuvre are experts in jewelry making. Together they founded Fatto–a creative space dedicated to making accessories out of beads. In the video below, they explain which materials you can use to create original beaded pieces.
14. Needle Felting Tutorial: A Step-by-step Guide To Making a Strawberry
Learn how to sculpt a simple strawberry out of wool using needle felting techniques It takes great patience to sculpt art toys out of wool and create the shapes you desire. However, the results are worth the time they take: needle felted creations are simple yet beautiful, charming both children and adults. Portuguese artist Maria Filipe Castro, better known as droolwool (@droolwool), is a needle felting expert. She loves bringing colorful characters to life. She has exhibited her creations in galleries and also sells them through her online shop. In this tutorial, droolwool will show you how to make a simple strawberry using common needle felting tools and materials. Discover more in the video below:
15. Louis Bicycle Creates One-of-a-kind Embroidered Clothing
Louis Bicycle creates hand-dyed embroidered clothing, from hoodies to bucket hats Being forced to adapt to new circumstances can take us down unexpected paths. Louis Bicycle (@louisbicycle) was taking a break from tattooing and selling his hand-made screen prints and linoleum block prints at a street fair in San Francisco when the pandemic caused the fair to shut down. During those first few days stuck at home, he picked up a tote bag that he had started to embroider a tiger onto a couple of years before. He finished the bag and put it online. “It got a decent response, so I made another the next day. It just went from there.” Since then, he has put out a variety of clothing—unique pieces that sell out almost immediately. “I’ve sewn for a long time, even a small amount as a kid. As I got older, I fixed clothes. I had a little wave a few years ago where I made some little embroidered patches. I just did it for a month or so and set it down. I hadn’t done hoodies in the past, just patches and tote bags. I soon figured out a way to put a backing on the hoodies so I could embroider them in a way that it would stay flat.”
16. Free Download: Template for Making Origami Envelopes with Cartoncita
Cartoncita, who specialize in origami and scenography, show us how to create origami envelopes and mini boxes Estela Moreno Orteso is the founder of Cartoncita–a studio workshop specializing in creating objects, spaces, and decorations out of paper and card. Their clients include big brands such as Vespa, Samsung and Hermès. In her live, Estela will show us how to create an eight-sided envelope, which is called a “tato” in Japanese, and a small box using the millennium-old art of origami. Here you can download the templates for free:
17. Domestika Diary: Olga Prinku
The creator of flower on tulle embroidery takes us on a walk through the British countryside, where she finds inspiration and flowers for her creations Olga Prinku (@oprinku) is a designer and maker who created the flower on tulle embroidery technique, where she embroiders dried and handpicked flowers onto tulle. A trained graphic designer, Olga adapted her design skills to her botanical surroundings to create her unique and elegant style which has seen her collaborate with Swarovski, Anthropologie, and Ruth Eaton London. In this Domestika Diary, Olga shares her florally-inspired daily routine and creative process with us:
18. 5 Textile Artists with Unique Styles You Should Follow on Instagram
Get to know some of Koral Antolín’s favorite textile artists In recent years, thanks to some excellent representatives around the world, textile art has been revamped. Textile artists who incorporate traditional techniques with contemporary experimentation have been creating unique and incomparable pieces. Designer, embroiderer, and art director Koral Antolín (@koralantolin) is one of these artists. She creates handcrafted textiles that embody her love for linear drawing and embroidery, with resulting painterly effects.
19. Free Download: Botanical Punch Needle Pattern by Caro Bello
Graphic designer and artist Caro Bello teaches you how to create a gorgeous botanical design using a punch needle Caro Bello (@carobello) is a graphic designer and artist specializing in punch needle whose work has been featured in publications and exhibitions such as OHLALÁ magazine and the 2019 edition of Casa FOA. In her Domestika Live, she will teach us how to punch needle a gorgeous botanical design. Here you can download the free pattern she will be teaching.
20. Halloween Masks Made by Domestika’s Community
Take a look through the Domestika community’s handmade Halloween masks Fashion designer Inés Aguilar is the creative director of the La Casita de Wendy brand (@casitadewendy), which sells its products in prestigious international stores. To celebrate this Halloween, she challenged the Domestika community to step in and customize their masks with a seasonal theme. Here is a small selection of the projects that were shared in this thread on the Domestika forum:
21. How to needle felt a rotten apple with a worm
Maria Filipe Castro, better known as Droolwool, teaches you how to create a rotten apple with a worm for Halloween This rotten apple with worm is an art toy that is part of the Apple & Worm series by Droolwool (@droolwool). This year, she’s taken inspiration from Halloween to create a new, scarier version. To recreate this piece, you will need wadding, carded wool in four different colors, and felt needles of different sizes, with one thick and the other one thinner. The colors you use are up to you, so feel free to customize your piece and pick ones that you like. Follow these simple steps to create your own needle felted rotten apply with a worm:
22. Basic Materials to Start in Woodworking
Patricio Ortega shows us how to execute a home carpentry project using basic tools and materials Patricio Ortega is the founder of artisanal furniture workshop Maderística (@maderistica), where art and design come together to create unique pieces. He teaches the Domestika course Professional Woodworking for Beginners.
23. 5 Contemporary Textile Jewellery Creators to Inspire You
The textile artist Fibra Bohemia brings you Instagram accounts bursting with inspiration
24. Free Download: Vampire Plush Toy template
Get your materials ready and get to work on this stuffed vampire bat The Textile Toy world is an art form that Omar Gad, founder of the Piti Piti studio (@pitipiti), is an expert of. Starting with designs that he first creates on paper or the computer, he creates a whole universe of characters by giving them volume and shape and transforming them into adorable stuffed animals. He is sharing this bat pattern with huge eyes and ears, and sharp vampire teeth, with Domestika. Time to recreate one yourself.
25. Materials: Needle Felting
The designer Maria Filipe Castro, as known as droolwool, shows us the extensive list of tools and objects that she uses to make dolls with felt, wool, and lots of creativity Maria Filipe Castro is a toy artist, specialised in the design and production of characters and figures made with textile materials like felt and wool. She regularly exhibits her creations and sells them on her online store. In her Domestika course, focused specifically on the manufacture of toys and animals through needle felting, this designer, as known as droolwool (@droolwool), uses different types of needles, brushes, wool, cutters, scissors, and other tools. In the video below, droolwool shows us these materials in detail:
26. A Brief Introduction to the Kantan Needle
Discover the origin of this needle and the different types of embroidery projects you can create with it As a creative discipline, embroidery offers endless possibilities. Enthusiasts will find great satisfaction in discovering new materials to create projects that go far beyond working with a traditional needle and thread. In this blog, designer, art director, and embroiderer, Koral Antolín (@koralantolin) presents the Kantan needle–a tool that will help you add unique touches to your designs.
27. Upcycling Tutorial: How to Start Patching Your Clothes
Learn to prepare patches to repair your clothes with Ofelia & Antelmo Fixing damaged clothes is not only good for our pocket, but also for the environment. Patches are a canvas on which you can paint, draw, and embroider: they allow us to extend the life of our favourite garments in style. Gabriela Martinez, specialist in embroidery and textile art and creator of Ofelia & Antelmo (@ofeliayantelmo), will show us the first step in fixing and adding personality to our torn or stained clothes with patches that you can even embroider if you so fancy. You can see the tutorial here.
28. Transfer a Drawing to Fabric With This Simple Method
Learn a simple method to transfer your drawings to fabric to be able to embroider them easily When starting to embroider, no matter what method we want to use, having a pattern helps us know where to work, especially if we are just starting out. A common option is to transfer a drawing to fabric and then use it as a reference for our stitches. In the following video, the designer, embroiderer and art director Koral Antolín (@koralantolin) shows us a simple method step by step to transfer our drawings to fabric and embroider them easily. Discover it below:
29. What is Amigurumi and What do I Need to Start From Scratch?
This crochet and knitting technique makes any day-to-day object irresistibly adorable While it’s practically impossible to pronounce this crochet technique’s name, anyone who tries falls in love with it. Amigurumi allows you to create sweet little characters and other items in a soft, adorable style. Something this kawaii and lovable had to come from Japan, but what is Amigurumi? And how can you start making such wonderful creations? We spoke to Leire Villar, aka Ameskeria (@ameskeria). This amigurumi and crochet specialist talked to us about the nature of her craft and revealed everything you need to give amigurumi a go. Discover her tips in the video.
30. A Brief History of Pop-Up Books
Pop-up books started 800 years ago as a “philosophical machine”, evolved into scientific manuals, and still survive today as a kids’ favorite. The oldest pop-up books do not have dazzling illustrations of castles, forests, kings, queens, dragons, and fairies. They were made in the Middle Ages to facilitate the understanding of natural and religious phenomena. One of them is a Volvelle (a type of book containing rotating circles attached to the pages), handmade in 1250 by the English Benedictine monk Matthew Paris, which explains the relation between the moon’s seasons and phases and religious holidays.