Embroidery shading

Silk embroidery is an art practiced by many cultures. Follow this step-by-step tutorial and learn the basics of silk shading.

Today I offer you a new case study! So if you ever wondered about the correlation between the number of layers (rows) on long and short stitching and the quality of blending, today's post might answer some of your questions, The task when stitching these 3 shapes was to make a transition from yellow to blue. The first example has only 2 colors: yellow and blue. The second example has 3 colors: yellow → green → blue And the third example has 7 colors: yellow → 2 mid shades of yellow-green →…

Hello everyone Hope your week is going well. For several months I have been working with the idea of providing tutorials on my website – am still tinkering with the idea of uploading some vi…

Continuing from where we left last time, let's take a look at the “non-conventional” placement of colors at needlepainting. A quick recap for those who missed the previous part of the needlepainting tips: The majority of lessons and tutorials for long and short stitching (including the lesson on this blog) show the traditional way of shading, which goes from top to the bottom in horizontal rows of colors. However, when you come to the actual needlepainting you might find out that the…

How to long and short stitch when the colors aren't placed in horizontal rows? Learnt he tips for diagonal shading in this post.

Trish Burr has selected beautiful flowers and interpreted them in her own unique style to present a stunning collection of embroideries. Meticulous in details, these flowers are brought to life by the use of lustrous threads and an intuitive use of simple stitches. With clear step-by-step instructions and full size templates, this beautiful book will be a 'must have' for any embroiderer's library. 'This book is a delight; the embroideries look real and are an inspiration.' Merseyside…

Royal School of Needlework on Instagram: "*On the fourth day of Christmas…Silk Shading*⁠ ⁠ This beautiful technique, sometimes known as ‘painting with a needle’, uses a number of colours in cotton or silk threads, skilfully blended together to create a natural appearance.⁠ ⁠ We love the subtle colours Hampton Court Palace Summer Intensive Student Michelle Agnew has used in her Silk Shading piece.⁠ ⁠ Learn how to create naturalistic work with Jen Goodwin in her Online class, ‘Developing Silk…

Here’s Lesson Four in this series of long and short stitch shading lessons. If you’re just joining in, you’ll find an index of the long and short stitch shading lessons available here on Needle ‘n Thread, where you’ll find all the links necessarily to easily access these embroidery lessons. In Lesson Four, we are looking ...

It goes by so many names, this technique of creating realistic shading in embroidery. But no matter what name it goes by, and whether there are slight nuances in the meanings of the different names, all the techniques named above involve the dominant use of long & short stitch. I use the term