Jacobean Fantasy ©

Proficiency Level:   Intermediate to Advanced
Technique:  Silk and metal embroidery on fabric with detached elements
Class Length: 2 days (12 hours)

Class Description: With elegant poetry and a glimmer from down glittering corridors of an age long past comes a glimpse of life we can but dream. Giving new interpretation to designs of the seventeenth century and blending them with the silk and metal of the twenty first, we will create an exquisite floral on silk fabric with detached sheer.
Techniques include working Battlement couching, Burden stitch, chipping and “S”ing. Soft twist silks in solid and overdyes will be combined with braids, crimped purl, check purl, and pearl purl. For dimensional effects we will work the detached elements separately on sheer fabric in the creation of this exquisite embroidery.
Students will be encouraged to use their own ideas in color and stitch interpretations.

Size:  6" x 7.75” design on 10" X 12" silk foundation