Tracy is highly technically trained and fully experienced in a range of traditional embroidery and stitch techniques.
Her knowledge and skill is evident in both her own work, and her students, as she able to adapt to teaching all different styles and types of embroidery. Her skills in technique include appliqué, blackwork, canvas work, crewel work, goldwork, silk shading, stumpwork and whitework, both traditional and contemporary. Other techniques Tracy has explored and developed are machine embroidery, quilting, free style embroidery and more modern mixed media ideas.
If you are interested in learning a particular technique, then please contact teaching@tracyafranklin.comCanvas work is a form of counted thread work, worked on a plain weave canvas ground fabric, and covering the entire surface with stitch.
Read moreCrewel work embroidery which is also known as Jacobean crewel work, reaching its peak in the 17th century in England, and later in America.
Read moreIn contrast to traditional gold work embroidery, creative gold work gives the opportunity to work with metal threads in an experimental ambitious and enterprising way, whilst remaining true to good technique.
Read moreSilk and gold work is often associated with traditional ecclesiastical church embroidery, used to embellish church furnishings such as altar cloths and vestments.
Read moreSilk shading is known as needle painting, thread painting, soft shading, and natural shading, tapestry shading, long and short and simply 'shading'.
Read moreContemporary Whitework embroidery includes all the techniques of traditional whitework embroidery including, Broderie Anglaise, Richelieu cutwork embroidery, Drawn thread work, Pulled work, and shadow work.
Read moreLet's keep in touch.
A Basic Silk Shading Tutorial . . . .
Wed, 05 Aug 2020
An article in interweave.com . . .
Wed, 09 Jan 2019
TextileArtist.org
Mon, 12 Feb 2018
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