Embroidery: Clothing Repair
A course by Ofelia & Antelmo , Textile Art Studio
Learn the Visible Mending technique and revive your garments using original embroidery pieces and patches that express your style
Learn the Visible Mending technique and revive your garments using original embroidery pieces and patches that express your style
When something is broken, we usually fix it. So why not do the same with our clothes? That’s what Visible Mending is all about: mending any unused or damaged items of clothing so that they can stand the test of time, just as our grandmothers did before us. It’s not a new technique; it involves going back to the relationship we previously had with our garments to give them a new life and a fresh new style to go with it! Gabriela Martínez is an expert when it comes to embroidery and textile art, and has made a name for herself in the industry thanks to her project known as Ofelia & Antelmo.
In this course, Gabriela teaches you how to mend and give personality to your clothes, whether they’re ripped or stained, using stitches and patches. She teaches her technique from scratch and guides you through it step-by-step, showing you how to revive the garments that are gathering dust in your wardrobe into unique and special favorites.
This course complements her first course, Designing Handicraft Garments from Scratch, where she teaches how to manually design, embroider, and piece together textile garments.
What will you learn in this online course?
19 lessons & 16 downloads
- 100% positive reviews (961)
- 23,428 students
- 19 lessons (4h 18m)
- 16 additional resources (4 files)
- Online and at your own pace
- Available on the app
- Audio: Spanish, English
- Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
- Level: Beginner
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What is this course's project?
Mend an item of damaged clothing using embroidery techniques and create patches to revamp an unused piece, giving it a fresh new look.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
To all those seeking to develop a deeper relationship with their garments and to give them a new style. Those with an interest in embroidery as a way to express their creativity and personality will also enjoy this course.
Requirements and materials
Previous experience with embroidery is not required to take the course, as Gabriela starts with the basics.
As for materials, you will need blunt needles of different sizes, different colored mouliné threads, the items of clothing you want to mend, textile scraps (plain, patterned, etc,), embroidery scissors and fabric scissors, an embroidery hoop, tailor’s chalk, pins, paper, and pens or colored pencils.
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A course by Ofelia & Antelmo
Ofelia & Antelmo is a project created by Gabriela Martínez—Textile Designer and Artist—which began in 2017 as a contemporary textile art project working across two formats: textile art and wearable art.
Textile art is where Gabriela explores her ideas using color, texture, stitches, and embroidery effects to create artisanal pieces with unique finishing touches that are resistant to wear and tear. Her aim is to focus on the quality of each piece, instead of producing high quantities. There is an intention of longevity in her work as a form of protest against the disposable, fast-paced world we live in today.
Content
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U1
Introduction
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Hello!
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Influences
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What will we do in the course?
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U2
Repair our relationship with fashion
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Collection of materials
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Prepare your garment!
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Texture sketching
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U3
Patchwork sample
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Sashiko Ofelia & Antelmo version
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Flat stitches 1
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Flat stitches 2
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Embossed stitches 1
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Embossed stitches 2
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Knitting stitch 1
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Knitting stitch 2
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U4
Embroidery as a mending tool
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Preparation of Patches and Compositions
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Internal Patches
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External Patches
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Camouflage Patches
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U5
Long live our garments!
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Care
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Other Applications
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FP
Final project
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Embroidery: Clothing Repair
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Great course! After an accident, my favouite linen pants got a hole. Thanks to this course I managed to fix it with a beautiful embrodery and gave new life to my pants. Easy to understand and clear instructions are given at all time.
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