Shading embroidery

Silk embroidery is an art practiced by many cultures. Follow this step-by-step tutorial and learn the basics of silk shading.

Needlepainting tips p.6: Shading on shading, is it worth it? #handembroidery, #embroidery, #stitching, #stitch, #needlework

Rose by designer Trish Burr. Incorporated into Meadow Medley piece by Luan Callery. Summer 2016 with EGA-JCA group.

Silk shading is beautiful techhnique, using numerous colours of cotton or silk to create a naturally looking flower, fruit, plant or animal. Find out more!

How to start & end embroidery thread

Here’s Lesson Four in this series of long and short stitch shading lessons. If you’re just joining in, you’ll find an index of the long and short stitch shading lessons available here on Needle ‘n Thread, where you’ll find all the links necessarily to easily access these embroidery lessons. In Lesson Four, we are looking ...

It goes by so many names, this technique of creating realistic shading in embroidery. But no matter what name it goes by, and whether there are slight nuances in the meanings of the different names, all the techniques named above involve the dominant use of long & short stitch. I use the term

Royal School of Needlework on Instagram: "*On the fourth day of Christmas…Silk Shading*⁠ ⁠ This beautiful technique, sometimes known as ‘painting with a needle’, uses a number of colours in cotton or silk threads, skilfully blended together to create a natural appearance.⁠ ⁠ We love the subtle colours Hampton Court Palace Summer Intensive Student Michelle Agnew has used in her Silk Shading piece.⁠ ⁠ Learn how to create naturalistic work with Jen Goodwin in her Online class, ‘Developing Silk…

And the new portion of needlepainting tips has arrived! This time let's take a look at an “alternative method” of long and short stitching! I stumbled upon this method not a long time ago. Frankly speaking, I've never seen it anywhere before (and I've examined quite a number of sources ever since I began stitching) and only accidentally bumped into it in summer, I think. This method was presented as one of the ways for long and short stitching, but, personally, I disagree to an extent and…

Let's have a look at the different ways this beautiful technique is taught. With a look at Tanja Berlin's technique through online learning, the RSN Certificate method, and finally, Jan Kerton from Windflower Embroidery.

This topic is something I've wanted to cover for a while now. It is especially beneficial for beginner embroiderers who are currently exploring long and short stitching and needlepainting. So, today's topic is actually not just “using long and short stitch as a filler”. I mean, we all know that it can be used as one, right? And we all know the main “how's” of using it as a filler: outline the shape and fill with long and short stitches. In fact, the main point that I wanted to speak about…