
Spanish embroidery - 17 great ideas
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The fantastic Spanish embroidery
Today I am going to share 17 beautiful works made with the Spanish or Elizabethan embroidery technique. All of them have been made with great effort and dedication by the embroiderers.
Spanish embroidery is very easy to make and we can use our free time very well embroidering our projects.
Despite this embroidery being very simple in its appearance, it can be very laborious and can be sophisticated, through the mixture of dots and geometric shapes.
Its origin is in the Middle Ages, when many luxury embroideries were made in Spain.
To make these embroideries we need the following material: a plaid, threads and a knitting needle.
The motives
We can go find the designs on the web or simply let our imagination run wild, with a free design. One of the most used stitches in Spanish embroidery is the asterisk (*), but there are many other very interesting stitches used in popular European embroidery: backstitch, darning stitch, star stitch, cross stitch and others more.
The motifs used in this type of embroidery are very small and are repeated forming bands, but there are embroiderers who use them as fillers for designs or other motifs. A wide variety of colors can be used.
The technique uses counted stitches and the embroidery designs have geometric shapes.
This type of embroidery is very simple in its execution, but, to embroider easier, the fabric must have a very regular warp and weft.
Currently, embroiderers use this type of embroidery as a filler for their free drawings, creating a fantastic illusion of color, because through the density of the points, we can have different shades in the same color.
17 projects in Spanish embroidery
Next, you can see the samples of 17 great ideas to inspire you in your Spanish embroidery projects:
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