Designing Handicraft Garments from Scratch
A course by Ofelia & Antelmo , Textile Art Workshop
Learn how to design, embroider, and join handmade textile pieces
Looking for a new technique to stimulate and express your creativity? Embroidery may be just what you’re looking for. Gabriela Martínez is a textile artist with a passion for everything handmade who has turned embroidery into her way of life. She’s the founder of the brand Ofelia & Antelmo, a textile art project focused on hand embroidery with a mission to create unique pieces bursting with texture and color. Gabriela's use of artisanal processes and meticulous techniques have led her work to be exhibited in Mexico, Brazil, Hong Kong, France, and Chile.
In this online course, learn how to embroider a garment woven with your personality following Gabriela Martínez’s creative process from start to finish. Discover her secrets for choosing colors, designing compositions, and achieving stunning visual effects, as well as her favorite stitches.
What will you learn in this online course?
16 lessons & 23 downloads
- 100% positive reviews (682)
- 16,423 students
- 16 lessons (3h 18m)
- 23 additional resources (10 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch · Turkish
- Level: Beginner
- Unlimited access forever
What is this course's project?
Create a handmade garment from scratch with the stitch of your choice, ready to frame and display.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Anyone who is curious about hand embroidery and wants to explore their creativity. It’s also great for designers looking to add handcrafted details to their pieces.
Requirements and materials
Everything is taught from scratch, so no prior knowledge is required.
As for the materials, you need gabardine or cotton canvas, small wooden hoops, thread, embroidery needles, fabric scissors, a fabric ruler, pins, and other easy-to-find items such as standard scissors, glue, and black and white crayons.
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Ofelia & Antelmo
A course by Ofelia & Antelmo
Ofelia & Antelmo is a project created by Gabriela Martínez—designer and textile artist—in 2017 that started out as a contemporary textile art proposal presented in two formats that go hand in hand: textile art and wearable art.
Textile art is the starting point of Gabriela's process, in which she explores all her ideas for colors, textures, stitches, and effects, then seeks to bring them to life in handmade garments with wear-resistant finishes and stitches. Her main motivation is that quality prevails over quantity, and so she creates pieces that can be inherited as a form of protest at the speed at which the world moves today.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Presentation
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Influences
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What will we do during the course
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U2
Color and textures
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Color secrets
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Final piece sketching processes
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Create textures with P1 patterns
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Create textures with P2 patterns
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Materials and tools
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U3
Sample stitches
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Embroidered Introduction
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Rice stitch
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Continuous Line Stitch
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Fan stitch
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U4
Start with your garment
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Basic Principles of Cutting
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Mark the guides and embroider your garment
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Hand rolled hem
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Union Embroidery
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FP
Final project
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Designing Handicraft Garments from Scratch
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Excellent instruction, diagrams, and suggestions.
Loved it, very inspirational. Would be a lot better if the translation was improved.
Love the teacher, class and content… but the translation is not very good and distracting.
excelente curso,super excelente maestra,era lo que necesitaba.
Hermoso!