Our recent workshop with Hanny Newton was exactly as billed: a day of exploring, creating and playing with beads and sequins, with the aim of creating a 'dictionary' of techniques to help us to push the creative limits in our work.
First off, Hanny set us the challenge of sewing on beads in as many different ways as possible in 20 minutes.
Then we cut up small pieces of painted acetate to form 'sequins' and stitched them onto fabric. This exercise clearly sparked people's imaginations:
Returning to slightly more traditional goldwork techniques, we cut and stitched gold and silver purl in patterns; and cut felt shapes, usually used for padding under silk or kid leather, and tried alternative ways of stitching them.
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| Hanny Newton - Ways of stitching goldwork padding |
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| Hanny Newton - Goldwork padding |
What an inspiring and productive day we had ....
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