Embroidery with ribbons - an elegant technique for creating three-dimensional paintings

2025 Author: Sierra Becker | becker@designhomebox.com. Last modified: 2025-01-22 22:09

Since ancient times (back in Ancient Rome), women loved to adorn themselves with narrow bright stripes of fabric. Girls wove them into their hair, fastened them to dresses and other clothes. Much later, in the Middle Ages, in Italy and England, not only women's outfits, but also home interior elements were trimmed with fabric stripes. Canopies and curtains, decorated with narrow ribbons, looked very elegant. But the French were the most fond of colored ribbons. They created large textile factories, which produced exquisite silk ribbons and braid. Therefore, it is safe to say that ribbon embroidery originated in France.

Few people know that King Louis XV was a great lover of this type of needlework, he often created masterpieces with his own hands. It was during the era of his reign that braid first began to be used as an embroidered decoration on the ball gown of every secular fashionista.

At present, embroidery with satin ribbons has not lost its popularity at all. It still enjoys the love of needlewomen. Especially beautiful embroidered with flowerspillows and tapestries. For beginners, ribbon embroidery can be an exciting hobby. The thing is that this technique does not have any complicated tricks. It is based on a few simple stitches, having mastered which, you can start creating your own unique masterpieces. Another undoubted advantage is that you do not need to have any strict scheme for embroidery, you can draw it yourself with a little creativity and imagination. So, let's look at the basic stitches used in ribbon embroidery:

1. The first main seam is called "needle forward". It is the most commonly used. It is done very simply. It is necessary to insert a needle with a tape threaded into it from the wrong side to the front. Next, measure the stitch and insert it again, now from the front side to the wrong side. Again we make a stitch and again bring the needle to the front side. For women familiar with sewing, this stitch is better known as basting.

2. For embroidery of flowers and petals, a seam “forward with a volumetric needle” is used. The technique of its implementation is similar to the previous one with one difference, which is that a knitting needle or a thick needle is placed under the stitches to give them splendor. Stitches are not tightened on the wrong side.

3. Ribbon embroidery primarily implies beautiful voluminous figures. They are made with a very original gossamer seam. To create it, simple threads are used to match the main tape. First, five or seven stitches are embroidered so that they come out of the same center. It looks like the sun or a snowflake. Then, from the wrong side in the center, a needle with a threaded tape is removed and they begin to alternately pull it through the “rays” in a spiral. The tape is pulled in turn either above the stitch or below it. To make the element voluminous, the ribbon is twisted.

Most people, looking at beautiful pictures embroidered with ribbons, believe that only experienced craftswomen can create such a miracle. Of course, in order to achieve positive results in any kind of needlework, constant practice is needed, but even beginners can do simple ribbon patterns. Moreover, in stores there are ready-made kits for embroidery with ribbons of different levels of complexity. Therefore, it is necessary to cast all doubts away and try to make the first stitches. Even if at first they are uneven, do not worry! With a little practice, your paintings will be admired by others.