Gold Embroidery in Spain
Country of the crafting: Spain
Region of the crafting: Andalucia
Type of the crafting: Textile
1. Geographic Area
Gold embroidery is a textile technique that is carried out in many Area s of Spain, especially in Andalucia.
2. Craft characteristics
The specialists in this Area use strands of gold as main material. The most important characteristc of this craft is that it never crosses the frabric that is, it remains extended on its surface and it is small stitches of yellow cotton threads for gold and white for silver that go fixing. the gold thread rolls it in the drill bit, from where it is released as the work progresses, and the needle is threaded with the cotton thread, previously waxed to lend it hardness. ?It is usually made on cloth, velvet or silk.
3. The technique
The golden thread is not threaded into the needle, but is passed over the fabric and sewn without going through it; and that is not especially difficult, everyone can learn, although it takes a lot of time and patience.The embroidery can be nuanced and in this case it is nuanced with colored shades that, when embroidered with them, leave the gold more or less discovered.
4. Used materials
Needles ; Pins ;Frame ;Drill ;Thimble ;Brushes ;Tweezers ;Templates ;Gold strands.
5. History
In the eighteenth century this type of embroidery was very common for luxury banners and casullas but it requires great intelligence and a lot of expense. It is called nuanced to turn to the same work but in which to spend less gold the dark are filled with sedas by laying the gold only on the parts in which they are to appear. In Spain, due to centuries of Muslim domination, the influence of Arabic embroidery was very important. Of the various Spanish styles, the most striking was the black sheep wool knit on white linen.
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