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Sculptural Gold Tambour: Beaded Butterfly Embroidery Course
Sculptural Gold Tambour: Beaded Butterfly Embroidery Course
Sculptural Gold Tambour: Beaded Butterfly Embroidery Course
Sculptural Gold Tambour: Beaded Butterfly Embroidery Course
Sculptural Gold Tambour: Beaded Butterfly Embroidery Course
Sculptural Gold Tambour: Beaded Butterfly Embroidery Course

Sculptural Gold Tambour: Beaded Butterfly

By Hand & Lock School
£275.00
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Location: Via Zoom

Duration: 3 Weekly 2 hour sessions

Join Lucy Martin and Charlotte Gaunt for a three-day online course where you’ll stitch a beautifully delicate, goldwork butterfly with a shimmering, translucent effect. This class is all about exploring light, texture and movement, blending tambour and stumpwork techniques to create a butterfly that appears to hover just above the fabric.

You’ll be working on a fine silk organza base, layering gold threads to create airy, shimmering wings, with tiny gold beads adding a touch of sparkle. To complete the piece, your butterfly will be placed over a dark navy and gold foxglove print fabric designed by Charlotte Gaunt, which you’ll enhance with foiling techniques for a soft, glowing background.

Over three relaxed sessions (two hours per day), you’ll build confidence in structural embroidery, learning how to work with metal threads to create delicate three-dimensional effects. By the end, you’ll have a truly unique piece.

Note: Some stitching outside of class may be needed to keep up with the steps.

During this three-day online course, you’ll explore a stunning mix of tambour beading, stumpwork and foiling to create a beautifully delicate, three-dimensional butterfly. You will learn how to work your butterfly wings flat on a piece of silk organza with chain stitch stitched in a tambour style.

All of the materials for this course will be sent out to you. You will need a 10 inch seat frame or an equivalent embroidery frame or slate frame for this class. You will need to supply your own embroidery equipment (scissors, needle threaders, daylight lights etc) to suit your learning needs.

Shipping

Please note that any additional products in your order will be sent with your class kit within the time frame stated below. To receive these items sooner please place this order separately to your course booking.

All International Parcels will be shipped via express courier two weeks before this class is due to start. Please do not book onto this course if you are within the two week window before the course starts and you live outside of the UK. UK parcels will be shipped three days before the course is due to start. UK parcels will be shipped express via Royal Mail. Please note that the address that you book the course with will be the address that the kit is sent out to. Shipping will be calculated at the checkout. 

Zoom & WhatsApp

Our online courses are delivered via Zoom using a high quality visualiser. Please download Zoom before the course begins. We also have an accompanying WhatsApp group for each of our courses. This group enables you to connect with other students and the tutor by sharing photos of your designs and progress. Please download WhatsApp before the course starts. All of our online course sessions are recorded and sent out after the class so you are able to access the lesson should you be unable to attend. 

For guides on how to download Zoom and WhatsApp please see our guides on out FAQ page here

PO Boxes/Third Party Couriers

Please avoid placing orders to PO Boxes or third party courier companies, Hand & Lock cannot be held responsible for replacing kits, delays or additional costs that this may cause. 

All our course times are run on UK time, please check here for help converting to another time zone.

Tutor Profile

Charlotte Gaunt

Rediscovered By is a textile design studio, rediscovering historical textile techniques. Her work has been shown in Homes and gardens, World of interiors, Period living, Times luxe, Conde Naste travel amongst others and current collaborations include hand knotted rugs with Knots rugs. 

Instagram: @rediscovered_by

Website: www.rediscoveredby.com

Lucy Martin

Exploring creative boundaries by drawing parallels between traditional technical stitch ability and cutting-edge design, Lucy Martin is a specialist hand embroidery practitioner based in the UK. Advocating ethical and sustainable design practice through material choice and mindful production, her work explores the parallels between art and nature, questioning whether the true beauty of nature can be replicated with a needle and thread.

Instagram: @lucymartinembroidery

Website: www.lucymartinembroidery.com. 

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Important Information for Online Courses

Before ordering your online class please be aware of the following,

- Use an email address at checkout that you wish to be contacted on

- Make sure your Shipping address is correct for where you want your course kit sent

- Do not place orders to PO Boxes or Military addresses

- Any products ordered alongside your course will be dispatched with your course kit, as course kits are sent out two weeks before the course date if you are wanting your additional products sooner please order these separately