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The document provides instructions and tips for different embroidery stitches including the backstitch, satin stitch, and split stitch. It also discusses embroidery materials needed like thread, needles, and an embroidery hoop. Additionally, the document discusses how embroidery can be used in portfolios for principles of design and connects the art form to outsider art created by psychiatric patients.

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Technique Tuesday

The document provides instructions and tips for different embroidery stitches including the backstitch, satin stitch, and split stitch. It also discusses embroidery materials needed like thread, needles, and an embroidery hoop. Additionally, the document discusses how embroidery can be used in portfolios for principles of design and connects the art form to outsider art created by psychiatric patients.

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Technique Tuesday

Embroidery
Inspiration!
Inspiration!
Inspiration!
Materials
Embroidery thread : 8
strands in each piece

- usually separated into


smaller amounts

- try using two threads to


start

Embroidery hoop : Use when


working with fabric

Needles
Techniques & Tips
Backstitch This stitch is
ideal for outlines, and it’s the one you’ll
find you use the most. Come up from
the back at point 1, then go down at
point 2. Come up at point 3, then go
back to point 1 and bring the needle
through to the back.
Techniques & Tips
Satin Stitch
When you want to fill an area with a smooth finish, this stitch
is the ideal choice. It’s best worked in small areas, because
if the stitches are too long, they may snag. Come up at point
1, then go down at point 2. Come up at point 3, then go
down at point 4. Repeat. Always work the stitches across
the area you’re filling, coming up on the opposite side where
your needle went down.
Techniques & Tips
Split Stitch
A great stitch for working outlines. When you make the ‘split’
try to go through the fibres, and not just in between the
strands of embroidery thread. Come up at point 1, then go
down at point 2. Come up at point 3, splitting the previous
stitch, then go down at point 4. Repeat.
Connection to portfolios
Drawing - use as your drawing tool -
this is a form of mark making

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/0
4/graceful-figures-and-shimmering-pea
cocks-embroidered-on-tulle-are-inspir https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/05/hand-sewn-hairst
ed-by-haute-couture/ yles-that-cascade-from-embroidered-hoops-by-sheena-liam
Connection to portfolios
2D & 3D Design - use to help
achieve a principle of
design.

Ex: the threads in this


piece create emphasis.

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/20
19/07/natalie-ciccorcicco/
Connection to portfolios
2D & 3D Design - use to help
achieve a principle of
design.

Ex: the threads in this


piece create repetition.
Connection to concept
German seamstress Agnes Richter (1844–1918) was a patient at the Heidelberg
Psychiatric Clinic during the 1890s. While held at the asylum she would densely
embroider her jacket, stitching the object with words, phrases, and diaristic entries in
deutsche schrift, an old German script. The layers of language make it difficult to
distinguish a beginning or end to the writing, and only fragmented phrases have been
deciphered from the jacket such as “I am not big,” “I wish to read,” and “I plunge
headlong into disaster.”

The object is a part of the Prinzhorn Collection at the University of Heidelberg


Psychiatric Clinic. The collection contains over 5,000 paintings, wooden sculptures,
sketches, and other art-based ephemera from patients at the hospital, collected by the
psychiatrist during the early 20th-century. This vast collection of work made by
psychiatric patients has had a major influence on a modern understanding of “outsider
art,” or the artwork created by self-taught artists who have had little to no contact with https://www.thisiscolossal
the mainstream art world. .com/2018/04/19th-century-
embroidered-straightjacket
/
Links!
Stitch techniques

https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/stitches-every-embroi
derer-should-know-4122123

https://tatasol.com/6-basic-embroidery-stitches-for-b
eginners/

http://www.molliemakes.com/home/library-embroidery-st
itches/
Give it a try!

Experiment on a fabric
scrap or paper

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