As salaamu aleykum wa rahmetuhAllaahi wa barakaatuh.
I am really into designing and making my own dresses. Im just starting out, but I want to know where if there is any place that sells embroidery patterns? Iron ons are the easiest and if I could find some that have middle east or pakistani/indian designs that would be so nice to buy. Does pakistan have such things? Maybe london? Or even a book with emboirdery designs for salwar kameez etc. I would buy. Any one know somewhere I can buy something like this? Or someone who lives near a place that sells it and I can pay for shipping who ever can ship it to me.
Maham, how do you make the embelishments on designs? Is there any patterns? Boy Ive been looking so hard to find like middle easter, pakistani/indian embroidery designs that I can use to put on my hijaabs and salwar kameez. Iron on embroidery is the easiest but even just a book too would help.
well at my current job i basically do the prints and some of those prints go for embriodery or embellishments so we go thru the material than select and give it to the workers to do the job. But when we were studying @ uni, we did our own sampling embriodering/embellishments since they were of smaller scale.
I have seen such pattern books at tailors shop but most look tacky to me. I suppose those must be available at book shops. where do u live?.
Re: Embroidery Patterns- Where do I find some? HELP
I live in America. Yeah I checked on ebay for emboirdery and embelishments patterns and I didnt really find any thing. Most of them were pretty tacky, stuff for pillow cases lol. How do the workers transfer your designs onto the material itself? Do they just look at them and just copy basically using needle instead of pen?
Re: Embroidery Patterns- Where do I find some? HELP
oh there are couple transfer methods but mostly for embriodery what they do is get the tracing on the tracing paper...do holes on it and than with a mixture of neel and water a solution is made which is rubbed on to the paper after placing it on the fabric...u ofcourse need good practice to do it perfectly w/o any accident spilling... :D n than there is the crayon tranfer method too but i guess thats mostly for kids wear....some people mite nt even need any tracing at all if they r only taking inspiration.
Re: Embroidery Patterns- Where do I find some? HELP
the way i do it is to make a template on to card and then actually draw round it onto the fabric with a pen/pencil you can then adjust depending on how much kaam you want onto the kameez it helps if you are good at drawing!!