Elba Embroidery Designs: Silk and Gold Edward Burne-Jones Inspiration

This Elba Embroidery Designs course will teach the embroiderer how to create their very own figurative piece utilizing silk embroidery threads in combination with applique and gold threads on a silk fabric ground in four sessions.

This is a multi-session embroidery course and includes the following dates:

12:00-3:00 pm (CT) will be the start and finish time for every class date.

• Sunday, March 22nd
• Sunday, March 29th
• Sunday, April 5th
• Sunday, April 12th

Techniques include:

• Split Stitch Shading
• Flat Silk Handling
• Applique Ground
• Directional Stitching In Silk
• Staggared Diagonal
• Couching Gold Threads
• Gold Threads Worked Over Padding
• Applying Spangles
• French Knots

For this course, the kit is sold seperately from the registration fee. Elba Embroidery Designs partners with Maydel in Chicago as the supplier for all of Elba Embroidery Designs kit materials.

Maydel is able to offer customized embroidery kits to meet individual student supply needs for every class. A link will be provided in advanced for registered students with the particulars used for creating this embroidery design.

All materials from Maydel are optional to order if the student wishes to use needles, threads, etc. that they may already have, with the exception of the screen printed design on a silk ground fabric and instruction packet, these two items will be required.

Students will also need to provide their own embroidery scissors, as these are not listed in the kit materials and have an appriopriately comfortable place for them to work.

Video demonstrations will be recorded for students to privately access to finish their work as a support resource. This also is handy for students who may need to miss a session or a partial session due to scheduling conflicts.

Cancellation policy: as class slots are limited, we request that course cancellations be made at least 72 hours prior to the beginning of the first class session to recieve a refund minus a 20$ cancellation fee. Cancellations made after the 72 hours will be charged the full amount of the course as we will be unable to arrange a substitue booking within that time frame.

Note: All materials purchased through Maydel in the event of a cancellation will be handled through the Maydel website.

Shipping: For shipping course materials, please allow for 5 business days for US domestic shipping and 10 business days for international shipping. Rush order shipping materials is available through Maydel upon request.

About the Artist:

Lauren Yeager a textile artist with a particular interest in studying and preserving historical garments and embroidery.

My love of handwork started in 2013. After having received a BFA in Fashion Design from Columbia College Chicago, I began learning and utilizing traditional hand embroidery techniques with the Royal School of Needlework in the UK. In the years to follow, I studied traditional Japanese embroidery with the Japanese Embroidery Center in Atlanta, GA, and also studied with Ecole Lesage in France.

After stepping out of my role as a core team production assistant for the visual artist Nick Cave, working in his Chicago studio to produce Sound-Suits and installation pieces for museums and private collections, I began my fulltime hand embroidery teaching career for the San Francisco School of Needlework and Design.

I have extensive experience working as a freelance artist and designer, assisting in costume production for various performances and competitions, in addition to public exhibitions of my work. Throughout my career as a textile artist, I have received multiple awards for construction and design in costume and in hand embroidery, including multiple DCASE individual artist grants from the City of Chicago.

In 2024, I decided to move my in-person practice fully to Chicago and focus on cultivating my brand.

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