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Frames for embroidery, decoration of finished works with your own hands (photo). Embroidery framing

A hand-made picture embroidered with floss or beads is an original gift. But in order for an embroidered picture to look as impressive as possible, it must be beautifully designed. When the picture made from threads or beads is ready, it’s time to think about how to insert the embroidery into the frame. If done correctly, embroidery will become a real masterpiece made by hand.

In order to finally complete the design of a picture embroidered on a hoop with beads or multi-colored threads, you need to secure it in a beautiful frame. Design of finished embroidery is one of the most important stages of work. . There are many different ways to design embroidery.

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You don't have to make the frame yourself. To decorate the finished picture, you can use a ready-made frame designed for photographs. The main thing is that the frame and the picture match in size.
A great alternative to a DIY frame is to leave the finished embroidery in the hoop. You can also take out the work and place it in a new hoop, matching the color with the overall color of the composition. If you decide to use this particular design option, it is very important to know how to properly stretch the fabric onto the hoop so that it does not sag and is securely fastened. Embroidery in a hoop looks no less expressive than work in an artistic frame.

There are many ways to do embroidery is more expressive, it all depends on the artistic features of a particular work: color, composition, material, seams and other visual and expressive means.

How to frame embroidery

In order to make small format work more expressive, it is best to use a ready-made photo frame or mat made of colored cardboard. If the embroiderer decided use a ready-made photo frame; it is recommended to use monochromatic options, without bright or colorful patterns. The designer's task is to make the embroidery the center of attention, not the frame. You can also use photo frames with a thematic design. For example, if the embroidery is dedicated to a marine theme, the work will look impressive in a frame decorated with real shells or their images.

Cardboard mats can be of a variety of colors, the main condition is that they must be monochromatic and should not distract the viewer’s attention from the embroidery itself. Cardboard colors such as black, brown, dark blue, gray or dark green will work. Children of primary school age can easily make a cardboard frame during technology lessons and master classes on artistic creativity.

A large format embroidered painting, such as a landscape, will look impressive in a baguette frame. You can purchase a ready-made frame, corresponding to the size of the embroidery, but you can also make it yourself from ready-made material. You can learn how to work with baguette by attending a specialized master class, or by watching a video recording of a training master class on the Internet.

In order to emphasize the artistic features of an embroidered picture, it is very important to choose the right design. An ideal embroidery frame should:

Sometimes an embroiderer may deliberately leave her work undecorated in order to emphasize its completeness and conciseness. But even in this case, it is necessary to process the edges of the canvas so that they do not crumble or fray over time. To do this, it is necessary to sheathe the edges of the work around the perimeter with threads, the color of which completely matches, or at least goes well with, the color of the canvas. This can be done manually or on a sewing machine. Beginner needlewomen are recommended to use a sewing machine, since it is quite difficult to make neat and invisible stitches without much experience.

Before choosing the final design option for the finished embroidery, it is recommended to conduct several experiments, “trying on” different frame options for the finished embroidery. Each design option can be photographed, and then, after analyzing all the photographs, slowly make a decision.

Attention: one of the main rules should be remembered, which always works when designing any artistic work, be it a painting, embroidery, collage or photography. This rule says: “The frame should never overshadow the picture!” The picture should be the center of attention, and the frame, even the most beautiful one, is just an auxiliary element.

Designing finished embroidery is one of the most important stages in the work of any needlewoman. Without decent design, even the most beautiful and expressive work can get lost and not attract attention. And, on the contrary, even a painting that does not have high artistic merits will look beautiful in a suitable frame.

All measurements during design work are carried out carefully and carefully, since an error of just one millimeter can ruin the painstaking work of the embroiderer.

When selecting a design for embroidery, the designer of a framing workshop takes into account both the style of the work itself and the interior features of the room in which it is planned to be placed. The baguette used should not draw attention to itself - any framing option is designed to emphasize the originality and uniqueness of the embroidery. The texture and colors of the frames are selected in such a way as not to suppress the colors of the embroidery itself, but to be harmoniously combined with it.

When decorated in a baguette or passe-partout, the embroidery canvas is carefully stretched onto the base as evenly as possible so that all horizontal and vertical lines of the canvas are maintained. For decoration, a special rigid base is selected, the material of which must be sufficiently rigid and dense, but not deformed when cut - hardboard, foam cardboard or museum cardboard. The latter material is ideal for decorating expensive embroideries, as it will preserve them for many years, protecting them from the harmful effects of the external environment.

After stretching onto the base, the embroidered fabric needs to rest for several days to evenly distribute the texture of the design. The stretching is carried out carefully, with alignment along the edges of the embroidery and in such a way that the lines of the design retain their original appearance and do not go in waves from the center to the edges. In order for the tension to be carried out as evenly as possible, additional technological rows of embroidery are used.

An experienced designer will definitely take care to place a backing under the embroidery that matches the shade of the main background of the design. For white canvas, the backing is most often white. For some work, it is enough to lay down the most ordinary sheet of paper. An interesting effect can be achieved by using contrasting colored substrates, which can be cut out figuratively, complementing or shading the main embroidery pattern.

The color of the mat is selected in such a way as to harmonize both with the overall palette of the embroidered picture and with the shades of the frame. At the same time, it is important that the color component of the baguette and mat does not dominate the color scheme of the embroidery and is not brighter. At the request of the customer, the mat can be further decorated. To do this, you can use beads, shells and other elements that match the theme of the embroidered work. In addition, applied figured elements, additional drawing and other design techniques are used that can turn your embroidery into a unique, one-of-a-kind piece. When designing embroidery with complex color transitions, double or triple matting is often used, which helps to identify the desired color.

When selecting the color and shape of a baguette frame, the color, style and composition of the embroidery are taken into account. As a rule, the ideal baguette color is the color that matches the most repeating shade of the design. But this is not a hard and fast rule. The variety of colors and textures of modern baguette is so great that you can choose a frame for even the most complex, exquisite embroidery. In this case, the frame can emphasize one or another embroidery pattern, texture or color. If several works are being framed, which will be located on the same wall or in the same room, then frames in the same style are selected for all embroideries. Also, works that are similar in size or shape can be brought to the same size by framing, thereby achieving a harmonious combination.

Framed embroidery looks most advantageous when the canvas does not touch the baguette frame or mat. The exception is works whose background completely goes under the frame and is completely adjacent to it.

Each embroidery is checked before stretching from the reverse side for the presence of uncut, protruding threads, which will be clearly visible through the canvas and spoil the impression. If such threads are available, they are carefully laid out on tightly embroidered areas to completely eliminate translucency.

When arranging embroidery in a passe-partout or baguette frame, it is recommended to use glass. Thus, the cleanliness and freshness of both the mat and the embroidery itself are preserved for a long time. Glass will protect the surface from dust and fading in the sun, and will also prevent contamination from hand touching. For children's rooms, you can use a safer option - plexiglass. It does not break and is much lighter than glass; this quality allows the use of plexiglass for large-format works. For expensive embroideries or beadwork, museum glass is recommended. In addition to its protective functions, its main ability is absolute invisibility.

There are a huge number of ways to secure embroidery to a base. Some people use a stapler, heat press, thread, double-sided or foam tape. At present, classic lacing is practically not used when decorating embroidery, since the process itself is quite labor-intensive and its tension weakens over time. Glue is never used to decorate embroidery, since the glued fabric, most often, cannot be re-decorated or may be partially damaged. Over time, yellow spots and bubbles appear on the surface of embroidery treated with glue, which will forever ruin the design and the entire work of the embroiderer. The staples of the stapler, when fixing the embroidery on the base, spoil the fabric and do not provide proper tension. Having come a long way, our craftsmen found all these methods unsuitable for high-quality stretching of embroidery, without sagging and damage to the embroidery. Therefore, we use a method that allows, if necessary, to remove the embroidery from the base without causing any harm to it. The embroidery is fixed only on the technological field (canvas) and does not affect the image itself. With this method of tension, the embroidery threads are firmly fixed and do not sag over time, even with changes in temperature and humidity.

The color combination of baguette and mat also plays an important role. If the color of the mat is chosen incorrectly, this can give the embroidery and canvas a yellowish or pink tint, which will certainly affect the overall perception of the work. A classic combination is the use of a wooden baguette with a beige mat. The shape of the mat usually follows the shape of the embroidery and helps to fit complex embroidery into a square or rectangular frame. You can also make a round passe-partout window in combination with a square frame or create a figured passe-partout that follows the contour of the embroidery.

Before designing embroidery with fleecy canvas, the pile is carefully removed, since only the fibers will be fixed, and the tension of the embroidery will not last long and will weaken.

The ideal and most modern way of stretching embroidery is stretching using comb strips with sharp petal teeth evenly spaced along the entire length. Comb strips are installed along the edges of the tension base and allow you to easily stretch and align almost any fabric of any shape without the use of glue or a stapler. Today, using comb strips is the ideal way to stretch embroidery, so this work is somewhat more expensive than standard methods. Also, the use of comb strips is ideal in cases where there is a need to frequently change the design of the embroidery.

creating embroidery in our workshop is a very important and responsible process that receives special attention! When accepting embroidery, all individual features of the work are taken into account, i.e. attention is paid to how tightly the threads are pulled together, what size the knots are on the reverse side, whether it is embroidered with woolen threads, beads, or maybe ribbons, how smooth the embroidery is, what is the size of the technological fields of the canvas, etc.

Based on the research results obtained, a decision is made on how your embroidery will be stretched - either stretching on a stretcher with a tablet, or high-quality manual stretching, using our special technology, which will meet the requirements of the most demanding embroiderers!

As you know, progress does not stand still, and modern technologies allow us to produce high-quality materials that help us achieve impeccable results in our work.

Our tension is reversible and the embroidery can always be removed and “re-stretched” again!

We have developed an exclusive embroidery stretching technology that meets the highest standards.

The embroideries stretched by us do not “sag”, are not deformed and do not have any traces of glue.When stretching embroidery, we do not use aggressive methods, such as rolling with a heat press, using glue, rolling on foam board and gluing with double-sided tape, as is done in many framing workshops. The results of such work may later result in stains from bleed-through glue, swelling and sagging, and will also not allow the embroidery to be aligned along the lines of the canvas...

Advice for embroiderers: before bringing the embroidery for decoration, we recommend washing it, ironing it and “winding it” on some kind of tube, or simply carefully rolling it into a tube, this will prevent a second visit to the workshop if suddenly upon reception it turns out that there are stains on the embroidery. A huge request, please do not cut off the “extra” canvas - this complicates the stretching process...

P read and evaluate reviews of embroidery designs created in our workshop on the most popular portal dedicated to embroidery Stitch.su

COST OF REGISTRATION OF WORKS USING THE EXAMPLE OF READY-MADE ORDERS

The cost of embroidery design is based on 3 components: the price of the baguette + the size of the work + the difficulty of stretching.

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1. Embroidery 15x15, Italian wooden baguette, with edging.Registration cost 1550 rub.

2. Embroidery 30x30, Russian wooden baguette, with velvet mat.Registration cost 1600 rub.

3. Embroidery 16x16, Italian wooden baguette. The cost of registration is 1800 rubles.

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4. Embroidery 20x30 double frame made of Russian wooden baguette, with museum glass. The cost of registration is 2200 rubles.

5. Embroidery 18x24, Russian wooden baguette.Registration cost 2300 rub.

6. Embroidery 25x35, Russian wooden baguette. The cost of registration is 3000 rubles.

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7. Embroidery 35x50 Italian wooden baguette, linen mat. Registration cost 4500 rub.

8. Embroidery 45x85, Italian wooden baguette, with mother-of-pearl mat and edging. Registration cost 16,000 rub.

A few weeks, or maybe months, and now your embroidery is ready. But embroidering the plot is only half the battle, because the design of the embroidery is also of great importance. How you choose a frame for embroidery, a mat, and how you design your work will determine what impression the embroidery will leave.

Framing workshop services are not cheap. But you can create a decent design for your embroidery yourself. In this article we will look at several ways to decorate embroidery with your own hands, and do it professionally and accurately.

Let's start with the very basics - how to properly insert embroidery into a frame.

How to carefully stretch embroidery onto a stretcher

First you need to determine the center of the embroidery and the backing. Draw central vertical and horizontal lines on the stretcher. Similarly, define these lines on the embroidery. Now align these two centers and secure with pins on the right side. This technology will allow you to avoid distortions of the canvas when stretching it onto the substrate.

Check if you are happy with how the embroidery is positioned and if there are any distortions. Only after this (aligning and securing the centers) cut off the excess canvas, leaving 3-4 cm around the entire perimeter. Process the edges of the canvas:

Starting from the center, moving to the outer corners, pull the canvas onto the stretcher and secure with pins, sticking them all the way to the end into the stretcher at a distance of about one centimeter. To avoid the appearance of folds and wrinkles on the canvas, when securing with a pin, choose the canvas thread as a guide and make sure that it is strictly perpendicular to you.

After securing the canvas around the entire perimeter of the stretcher, carefully tuck and sew the corner folds of the canvas:

Glue the edges of the canvas along the entire perimeter to the stretcher with double-sided adhesive tape.

This method of securing the canvas to the backing will allow you to avoid the appearance of distortions and folds in the embroidery, which often appear over time on unsecured canvas.

Passepartout for embroidery

Now let's look at two options for creating a textile mat for embroidery.

Option one:

Iron the embroidered canvas well from the wrong side:

Decide how wide your mat will be relative to the embroidery itself. On the wrong side of the canvas, mark its width:

Around the resulting outline of the passe-partout, draw another rectangle approximately 4 cm wide.

Trim the corners of the large rectangle. This is what you should get:

Make a copy of the wrong side of the canvas - this will be the pattern for the passe-partout:

Place tracing paper on the copy and copy the outline of the embroidery itself and the outer edge onto it:

Place the resulting pattern on the mat fabric:

Trim the fabric along the outer edge and cut along the outline of the embroidery inside:

Place the resulting passe-partout on the front side of the canvas:

Secure the fabric with pins:

Carefully sew the fabric and canvas along the contour around the embroidery:

This is what the backside looks like:

Place the subframe on the wrong side:

Fold the edges of the fabric over the stretcher and sew each corner of the bevel:

Secure the edges of the fabric to the stretcher using double-sided adhesive tape:

Insert into frame:

Yes, the process is long and quite labor-intensive, but it allows you to achieve maximum accuracy when preparing the work. And the result is without a doubt worth it.

Option two:

This method of making fabric mats is especially suitable for monochrome embroidery.

As a basis for the passe-partout, you can use thick cardboard, a frame made of chipboard or plastic.

Apply glue to the inside of the fabric and one side of the cardboard. Transfer the cardboard onto the fabric. Make sure to place it in the center of the piece of fabric, leaving equal parts on each side. Press the cardboard firmly onto the fabric. Check the front of the fabric to make sure all air bubbles are coming out:

Carefully trim the corners of the fabric, leaving a small allowance of a few millimeters at the corners of the cardboard:

Apply glue to the edges of the fabric and cardboard. Stretch the fabric over the cardboard, starting from an area near the corner. Iron the fabric firmly with your hand so that no air bubbles remain:

Cut the inside of the fabric diagonally in an X shape, starting at the corners. Cut out a rectangle, leaving 2-3 cm of fabric on each side:

We coat both surfaces with glue and stretch the fabric onto the cardboard, starting from the corners. It is worth paying attention to the outer corners - coat them with additional glue and smooth them with your finger:

Leave the finished mat to dry completely:

This method of creating a passe-partout involves a wide variety of color solutions; you just need to decide on the fabric pattern.

Video - “How to arrange embroidery in a passe-partout”

Video - “Independent design of embroidery in a frame with mat”

Hoop - like a frame for embroidery

Using a hoop as a frame for embroidery is not a new idea, and has rather become a classic. And this is quite understandable, because the finished work thus acquires an original and very attractive appearance.

But using a hoop as a frame requires some subtleties.

In order for the embroidery to be well-designed, it is necessary to properly secure the canvas to the hoop. You cannot simply insert the embroidery into the hoop, tighten it tightly, and trim off the excess canvas around the edge of the hoop. And that's why:

over time, the tension of the canvas in the hoop weakens, and if the edge is cut close to the hoop, then it will no longer be possible to tighten the embroidery;
embroidery in a hoop, unlike an embroidered picture in a frame under glass, periodically requires washing; It’s unlikely that it will be possible to insert the embroidery back into the hoop with such an edge.

Let's look at several ways to secure embroidery in a hoop.

Option one:

This method involves fixing the canvas in the hoop “not tightly”; if necessary, the embroidery can be easily removed from the hoop at any time.

Trim the excess canvas around the hoop, leaving a strip slightly smaller than the radius of the hoop (for example, if the hoop diameter is 10cm, you should leave about 4cm):

Stepping back approximately 1cm from the edge of the canvas, sew in a circle using a “forward needle” seam. Do not tighten the knot too much:

This is what you should get:

Now grab both ends of the thread and pull the fabric evenly:

If you do everything carefully, the frills will meet in the center and will be flat (will not puff up):

Tie a knot at the end and you're done:

Option two:

This method no longer involves removing the embroidery from the hoop, but at the same time allows you to achieve maximum accuracy when decorating the embroidery.

Additionally, you will need a piece of cotton fabric that matches the size of the embroidery.

We place additional fabric on the inner hoop, put a canvas with embroidery on top, and secure everything on top with the outer hoop:

Carefully smooth out all the folds on both fabrics, align the embroidery, and finally tighten the hoop:

We cut the inner lining fabric flush with the inner hoop. Decide whether there is a need to cut the canvas itself - it should be wide enough to cover the width of the hoop:

Apply glue to the inner hoop of the hoop:

We press the canvas to the hoop along the entire perimeter:

This is what we end up with:

Hoop decor

If you use a hoop as a frame for embroidery, then like any other frame, they can also be decorated. And here it is the same, there are a lot of ideas, here are a few of them:

Decor with braid

In this case, the braid is simply glued from the wrong side along the edge of the hoop:

Decor with ribbons:

Fabric decor:

This method is not only original, but also practical - the fabric that is used to wrap the hoop protects the canvas from damage when the embroidery is pulled. In addition, the canvas holds tension longer and does not sag over time.