Botanical Embroidery Tutorial
Olga PrinkuLearn how to embroider flowers with Olga Prinku.
Duration 1hr 45min
Subtitles Available
The creator of botanical embroidery takes you into her North Yorkshire studio to master this beautiful and original craft.
From Olga’s approach to foraging for flowers, to her techniques when creating these beautiful works of art, this comprehensive tutorial film takes you through every stage of the process and guides you every step of the way.
Whether buying dried flowers or finding and drying your own, the results are fantastic and can be designed to suit any home or colour palette.
What you’ll need- Quilting hoops
- Net fabric/tulle fabric
- Dried flowers
- Grasses and seed pods
- Needle and thread
- PVA glue
- Scissors
- Sewing pins
- Printed typeface
- Silica gel
- Air tight Tupperware
- Craft Sealer
Olga Prinku is a designer, maker and creator – and innovator of flowers on tulle embroidery. Passionate about dry flowers and botanical art, Olga came to develop a floral embroidery technique using real organic material as her thread.
Her work has been featured in a number of books, printed and online publications, and on TV – Mollie Makes, Flow, Maison Creative, House Beautiful, architecturaldigest.com, marthastewart.com, on Channel 4’s Kirstie's Handmade Christmas, and more.