The slightly forgotten silk ribbon embroidery technique is back in fashion today. Beautiful, voluminous, it came to us from China, then widely used in France, England, crossed the ocean and was widely used in America. This embroidery is characteristic of the Rococo style. Everything was embroidered: outerwear, underwear, accessories, toys. Incredibly beautiful and spectacular, each thing becomes a masterpiece, because everything that is created by their own hands, each creative product is great.
If before the ribbons were painted by hand, today the choice is so great that you can no longer prepare ribbons, you can buy satin ribbons, organza, synthetics or silk in shops for handmakers. Pay attention to this nuance - decorative ribbons with a hard edge of paint is not recommended, they become rigid and unsuitable for embroidery.
Choose to use ribbons up to 7 mm wide. You can occasionally use satin ribbons up to 1.2 cm, but it is much harder to work with them. The ribbon should be extremely soft and mouldable. Hard bending tapes break down, the pattern turns out to be broken, unnatural. To paint the ribbons use silk paints, you can use the technique of batik, so the pattern will look more natural.
Why is it embroidered from ribbons?
The decor of ribbons looks very beautiful - the edge of frames for photos, boxes, hair ornaments. Create a rosebud of ribbons with your own hands, embroider the lid of the box with chamomile, a small daffodil in the corner of the frame - the work will not take much time, but you will like someone for whom you have made it much more than the purchased product.
Especially beautiful such embroidery looks on doll outfits and children's clothes. And if you decide to completely transform your room and create a unique country style interior, then use this very embroidery - there is nothing more beautiful than voluminous bouquets on pillows, blankets, plaids. Let your working basket always have embroidery ribbons and special needles and a big ear - only with the help of them you can embroider voluminous patterns.
Working with muline threads and embroidery is very pleasant, but it is much more pleasant to touch the delicate silk ribbons - they ask for your hands, and the result is immediately visible. For example, working with Vladimir's smooth surface, you will see part of the embroidery only after a certain time, and in the work with silk ribbons you see the drawing almost immediately. Each flower, each petal you form with a needle and special tweezers.
Techniques for embroidery ribbons
Ribbon embroidery techniques a lot, you can list the main, by the way, the master classes on the Internet also a lot, if you want to present a unique gift to a friend - spend very little time, your work will be appreciated on merit. It is important to collect all the necessary tools to work with silk ribbons - hoops, wooden machines, sets of quality needles, good embroidery fabrics. It is good to have prints or schemes to start with.
You can take a picture or photo as a basis for your future masterpiece, but it is much easier to start learning how to embroider ribbons according to ready-made schemes. Here you will not make a mistake for a millimeter, each stitch is pre-calculated, there are ready pieces of silk and ribbon in the embroidery kits. Start with our ready-made kits, and you can show your creativity and potential later, when you fully master the technique of embroidery ribbons.
Basic types of techniques:
- Forward needle suture
- Suture by needle
- Shoelace suture
- Stem suture
- Loopy suture
- Tambourine suture
- Loop with a clip suture
- Half-loop suture with adhesive
- Cruciform suture
- Cross suture
- Knot suture
- Long stitch suture
- Long suture with a curl
- Loop not tightened suture
- Twisted tape suture
- Interceptor tape suture
- Mesh pattern
It may be that you only like a few kinds of ribbon techniques, so try, train, practice!
The main thing is that the results are always stunningly beautiful. Imagine how gorgeous it will look like the simplest bouquet of white daisies embroidered with ribbons! Do with your own hands such works, you will feel inexplicable pleasure.