Beading Kit: PATTERN & INSTRUCTIONS ONLY Digital file, without beads. Right-Handed

Spring Silk & Metal: Couture Hand Bead Embroidery

Download this online instruction booklet. Ready to use immediately in the comfort of your own home.

NO BEADS ARE INCLUDED. PURCHASE A BEAD KIT SEPARATELY OR USE YOUR OWN BEADS

Colour: Lilac, light aqua, blue, pink & silver

Size: 20cm x 15cm (8” x 6”) Beginners & Enthusiasts.

Skill Level:

This is a hand bead embroidery class. (using a needle)

Metal plate and silk ribbons have been used in Haute Couture Embroidery in France for many years embellishing couture garments and home interiors.

Hand Bead embroidery and surface stitching techniques with a needle are used to stitch threads & beads to plain fabric in a design.

Learn how to prepare your fabric on an embroidery frame, transfer a design, to handle and stitch silk ribbons and metal plate ribbon in interesting ways, overlapping & interlocking and finish your piece with beads.

Included: Instruction Booklet

• Finished project photo cover page, Design Pattern BW, Color Key

• Bead & Materials list:  description & quantities needed to complete this kit

• How to transfer an embroidery design to fabric

• How to put the fabric on a frame

• Starting & finishing stitches.

• Step by step instructions Hand Bead Embroidery techniques with diagrams & photos

You will need to supply:

• 1 x 18” x 16” min roller bar / slate frame

• 2 x meters x 3cm cotton webbing for side lacings

• 2 x quick grip clamp 15” Irwin brand

Techniques:

• How to put fabric onto an embroidery frame

• Transferring pattern to fabric.

• Starting and finishing techniques.

• Using a needle, create scrolls in beads, crystals & sequins

• Couture beading & embroidery techniques: single seed bead anchor, detached chain stitch, whip stitch sequin loops and single bead stitch, lapped plate, ribbon stitch, straight stitch, loop stitch, lapped ribbon stitch.