Friday 25 October 2013

OF GOLD SKULLS & ANGEL WINGS

Surface ornamentation needs innovation at every point. This is the time to think out of the box and use these quirky and at the same time elegant brooches to create some fantasy fashion. From crystal embedded gold skulls to exquisitely wrought angel wings, take your pick from a brand new range of innovative & exciting material on www.embroiderymaterial.com




 TIGER FACE IN CIRCLE STUD
















COLLAR & CUFF EDGING
TIGER FACE STUD













LOCK STUD















GOLD PIPE



Monday 21 October 2013

TOP EMBROIDERY TREND FOR SPRING SUMMER, SEEN IN ALBERTA FERRETTI SS14

Beautiful multi-colored floral embroidery on a white lacy cottony background evokes a nostalgia for the fresh-faced folkloric peasant belle combined with  Spanish flamenco gipsy fieriness. For Spring Summer 2014, Alberta Ferretti creates this gorgeously fresh and fiercely floral collection of ivories and stripes with strategically placed luscious thread embroidery!!!!!! We are in LOVE with the topmost embroidery trend for Spring Summer 2014......MULTI-COLOR THREAD EMBROIDERY!!!











Thursday 10 October 2013

PARIS FASHION WEEK EMBROIDERY TRENDSPOTTING CONTINUES WITH BALMAIN!!!!!

PARIS FASHION WEEK EMBROIDERY TRENDSPOTTING CONTINUES!!!!!THIS TIME WE ZERO DOWN ON A FANTASTIC JUXTAPOSITION OF ROCK-CHIC AND DELICATE COUTURE, AS SEEN IN BALMAIN SPRING SUMMER 2014!!!! THE  EMBROIDERY STATEMENT IS CREATED BY A COMBINATION OF  CHUNKY METALLIC CHAINS  WITH ETHEREALLY DELICATE LACES AND CRYSTALLINE FLORAL MOTIFS  !!!! WE ARE IN LOVE LOVE LOVEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!














Wednesday 9 October 2013

TREND SPOTTING FROM PARIS FASHION WEEK: VALENTINO

A canvas of black is painted with a plethora of bright folkloric hues in gorgeous thread embroidery techniques!! We are absolutely and entirely in <3 LOVE <3







Thursday 3 October 2013

PEARLS FOR A LADY.....AN ILLUSTRATION

I started drawing women when i was 7 years old...... princesses and fairies in beautiful ball gowns and exotic flowers, strings of pearls and glittering diamonds.
What was the influence? Hard to pinpoint. It might have been the beautiful illustrations of Cinderella and Snow White and Beauty in Ladybird fairytale books, the  inherent love for all things delicate and beautiful that is fired up in an imaginative child after consuming a steady diet of legends and fairy tales from all over the world!
Whatever the reasons were, the passion has continued over the next couple of decades. My best time starts when I'm alone with my beloved pencils, Rotring pens, Staedtler colors and loads of spotless ivory sheets!!!!
Today i combine black with pearls..... both the epitome of lady-like elegance and ageless chic. Its amazing how a sketch can convey in a glance, an attitude that would take ages to write about!!!!
So I'll leave it you, readers, to determine the feelings created by this particular illustration, and I'll be glad if it evokes the same thoughts in you,as i had when i sketched it!!!