Tapestry Seam - Secrets of Painting by Filaments

Exquisite art that does not leave people's minds is not the first millennium, the tapestry Embroidery transforms houses and offices, organically fitting into any style of the interior. Those who have at least once seen the final picture embroidered in this technique, will never forget the sensations of painting by threads on the fabric.

Tapestry and semi-cross .

In the eyes of an amateur, tapestry embroidery does not represent anything complicated, differing from embroidering with a cross with only one stitch in a certain direction. But this is not so. Technique of execution of the semicircle implies following the following scheme: the canvas cage or embroidery fabric intersects on the front side diagonally from the left to the right, and from the wrong side - from the upper right corner to the lower right.

Unlike the semicircle, the gobelin seam foresees the use of two cells for one stitch. In order to embroider one stitch in the tapestry technique, it is necessary to bring the needle to the front side from the upper right corner and insert it on the wrong side in the lower left corner. The next stitch is performed by pulling the thread from the wrong side of the thread to the upper right corner of the next cage. This is a modern version of the design, called in manuals for embroidering a " canvas suture, " or an oblique tapestry seam .

Kinds of a gobelin stitch .

If the embroiderer is only acquainted with the art of tapestry, then she should pay attention to ready-made sets for embroidery. In them, an instruction is attached to the diagram, the canvas and the strings, where the tapestry seam is described in detail. The technique of its execution can be different: it is applied as described above, the "canvas suture", and others, presented in textbooks on needlework.

The proposed manuals on the basics of tapestry embroidery describe in addition 3 types of stitches: straight gobelin, elongated and Romanian.

Straight Gobelin Seam . Equipment Its execution is simple: the needle is removed from the upper part of the cell on the front side and inserted on the back of the cell. One cell of the canvas fills not one stitch, but two at once. In this case, the first stitch exceeds the second stitch by exactly half, and the second "captures" half the height of the lower cage. Such a seam creates a feeling of three-dimensionality of the picture.

Elongated tapestry seam . Unlike "direct", when embroidering an "elongated" stitch takes not one, but just two cells in height. When using such a seam tapestry fills a large area of tissue. In addition, in some paintings it is recommended to combine straight and elongated tapestry seams to create the effect of painting with paints.

Romanian tapestry seam : differs from "canvas" in that before laying a series of stitches, through a certain number of cells a horizontal line is stretched by a thread, to which the fragment will be sewn. Next on this thread are superimposed "canvas" stitches.

Tapestry stitch - we create the beautiful.

As a rule, the standard application of a tapestry seam is associated with the embroidery of paintings and icons. This direction is especially popular among needle and thread masters. With the help of a tapestry seam, copies of paintings by famous artists are being created (Romanian and Bulgarian tapestries are very popular among embroiderers) and their own creations.

But the tapestry seam can be used for other purposes. When creating new types of decorative and applied art, the technique of creating a tapestry, for example, in carpet embroidery, is widely introduced. True, it is worth mentioning that in this kind of needlework, the tapestry stitch is used only as an auxiliary element.

Tapestry tapestries in European kinds of applied art are also widely used, for example: in Richelieu, Florentine embroidery and "bargello", which combines the Florentine and Hungarian schools. These types use a tapestry seam because of its increased wear resistance. This is due to the fact that the last three types of needlework are great for creating interior items - decorative pillows, printing on chairs, capes on chairs and sofas.