What exactly is hand embroidery?
Hand embroidery, in it’s truest sense, is the application of design onto fabric with beads and threads that are stitched totally by hand with a needle. Most providers of hand embroidered items refer an automated system. Real hand embroidery is NOT the guiding of a threaded embroidery machine by an operator. You can buy machine embroidered silk by the metre and this is fine for a uniform repeated pattern over a larger area. With hand embroidery you can have beautiful small details, embroidered exactly where you want them, on your dress. Pam Sayer stitches every bead and thread by hand and does not even use embroidery hoops as this can mark the fabric of your dress. Folding silk can also leave creases that are very difficult to remove so, while working on your hand embroidery, Pam gently scrunches any excess silk into her hand. The crush marks are then easily removed by smoothing with the heat of a hand.
