How To Collage And Embellish With Fabric Embroidery
Just right for fabric collage, Colour Streams has fifty hand-dyed colours in an array of silk threads, silk ribbon, pure wool craft felt, silk velvet, silk Habatai, silk organza and silk crinkle chiffom hand printed fabrics. This wide variety of embroidery and felting products appropriate for fabric collage give the creator both textural and colour play. Adding to this is a range of shot metallic silk fabrics working delicate metallic lights to place into fabric collage, needle felting, or traditional felting. To get you started, Colour Streams has created a coordinated ‘Embellishment Stash Pack’, which includes vintage fabrics and saris, and numerous lace embellishments such as hand-dyed laces.
So what is fabric collage? Fabric collage is collecting inspiring pieces of fabrics or papers and joining them together in layers with an assortment of seaming, and embroidery methods. Choose from traditional stitching, appliqué or over laying raw seams for a fashionable look or felting. This creates a base fabric for you to decorate. You can make pleasant patterns or tell a tale. A form of collage with its roots deep in historycan be shown through crazy patchwork. Some creations include books, wall panels, purses, artist trading cards and more.
Collage preparation – Fabrics can be prepared for collage by ripping or cutting strips, fraying or burning edges and holes, crumpling or pleating fabrics for texture. Sometimes pieces of lace from a family member are added to the collage as memorabilia. Fabrics can be painted or stamped with different shades. Some fabrics can be so shiny that they frighten me, but when layered with lace and sheer over top, a beautiful light glimmers through. To add more texture, dimension, borders, or highlight areas of your piece, embroidering with hand-dyed threads and ribbons is fabulous for the job.
Surface embellishment – You can add finishing touches by stitching beautiful Colour Streams sequins into place with seed beads. Colour Streams has sequins in a broad assortment of shades. These beautifully tinted sequins can be flower, square, or diamond shaped, or even be as tiny as 2-3 mm wide. Your embroidery will have glints of light from these striking sequins. There are many people who collect buttons for embroidery- old and new. Maybe you like to group together buttons of different tints, sizes and textures to create interest and other found objects such as old pearl necklace findings. Avariety of hand-dyed and natural mother of pearl buttons is offered at Colour Streams. Mix in a few beads amongst them and it is an extra highlight in your collage.
Our fabric embroidery kits show off these collage methods in a few different styles. This kit starts with a stiffener (such as felt) and hand-dyed Habatai silk, proceeds with hand-dyed lace, crinkle silk chiffon, braids, trims and embroidery and finishes with beading. When finished, your work will have such fine textures and fabrics that it will seam much more complicated than it really is. Hand-dyed overdyed products which Colour Streams produce make creating that colour play much easier. Changing colours or fabrics and threads bring a vibrance to the tint and tone of your embroidery.
I always ‘Let the Colour do the Work’.
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