Such is the Florentine embroidery on the fabric — barjello. Very bright, convex, as the overflowing fire in the flames. And it is interesting that all kinds of barjello are not so much, but the result is always striking. The finished product seems to be covered with volume stitches of flaming threads. If our usual smooth surface allows you to direct the threads in any direction, the Italian embroidery barjello restrictions much more, here everything decides the game of color.
Stitches of embroidery is quite simple, short, you can only make stitches waves, peaks, squares. Everything else turns out because of the texture of the thread. This technique is used by embroiderers to create bedspreads, capes, correct short patterns can decorate shoes and clothes, recently it is a barjello that decorates handbags, accessories — such a beautiful product can be taken to the theater — you will be pleased to see how to look at the beautiful product of others — bright embroidery always attracts the attention of handmade women.
Necessary accessories for the work
In the handmaker's basket there is everything you need for a bargello, nothing special to buy. Choose them all threads for embroidery only luxurious products. If you need mainly muline for Vladimir's iron, then you will not need it here. The threads themselves should be magnificent — this is the secret of the barjello.
Everything else you have, here is a list of necessary items:
- Sharp scissors (preferably short).
- Sturdy needles with no sharp tip but with a wide ear.
- A fabric with a rare weave on which the base is clearly visible.
- Different threads (you're picking up the material to your liking).
- Frame in which the product will be fixed (try to start with the oops, if you like the technique of Bargello, you can order the frame separately).
Very carefully inspect the threads with which you will have to work: fluffy, soft, as if specially swollen or stuffed, the thickness of the threads should correspond to the diameter of the cell through which it is passed. If the thread will be thicker than a cell, the product will turn out rigid unless you have decided to specially make a very dense thing — a handbag, for example. Note: embroidery on both sides turns out to be equally colorful.
You should not start with too complicated schemes - any novice handmaker should "taste the work", only after the first product comes out of your hands, you can continue to experiment. Still remember that the technique of embroidery Bargello does not give such a variety, it is quite avaricious on the main stitches, strict, the whole effect — only in the game of threads and colors.
The basis of work — a clear following of stitches, usually the ornament is repeated in the product repeatedly, so the finished product looks like a fully covered ornament. We work from right to left, clearly counting the warp threads — that's why we need a fabric with well-calculated threads. Bargello craftswomen working with the technique understand very well that it is easy to lose count, so always put on the basis of the markup.
So the principle of work is simple:
- Selecting a fabric with easily visible warp threads
- Choosing a simple drawing for the first experiment
- Pulling the fabric over the frame
- Marking up
Now you can start embroidering, do not forget that in this technique it is important to count the threads. All the direction of embroidery vertical, 4 warp threads are covered with embroidery thread, move exactly one thread of the warp, count the two threads up and put the next stitch strictly parallel to the previous one. That's the secret — you just cover the main fabric with colored fluffy threads, the pattern on both sides will be completely identical. If the pattern is more complex, the stitch length may change, but the technique itself remains the same. It is important that the embroidery threads are more voluminous than the basic ones, so the pattern turns out to be convex, voluminous. Each step - it is one thread of the base, that's the whole embroidery technique of barjello. When you master the vertical embroidery, turn the frame by 90 degrees and also work with the threads so you will get an embroidered square. That's what the frame is for: you're always watching the progress of work, carefully counting the threads and do not let any, no matter what direction you work in.
There are more complicated patterns and slanted stitches. You can create a pattern of "Christmas tree" — the threads are crossed at the base, it turns out a kind of mirror pattern on the basis of the angle between the stitches will hang the thickness of embroidery. Place the stitches just in parallel, you get the most familiar smooth surface, and only three-dimensional threads make it unusual and bright. The very technique of embroidery bargello is quite simple, you will master it in a matter of minutes. Here, all the beauty and uniqueness take on the pattern and threads that you use in the work.