Amazing Gold Thread Embroidery!
At November 2016 Day Meeting, Lesley Uren, a member of the Embroiderer’s Guild of Victoria, talked about her love of metal thread work. Her pieces of work were astonishing - such fine work that takes hours to create. Lesley willingly shared lots of history, tips, and techniques behind her works of art.
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- Lesley is an Embroiderer, specialising in gold thread work.
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- ‘What is that Wild Thing?”, gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren. These are Southern Growling Frogs – an endangered species – and a mosquito.
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- ‘Amongst the Lignum’ – gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren.
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- ‘What is that Wild Thing?”, gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren. These are Southern Growling Frogs – an endangered species – and a mosquito.
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- ‘What is that Wild Thing?”, gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren. This is a close up of the mosquito.
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- ‘Amongst the Lignum’, – gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren.
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- ‘Amongst the Lignum’ – gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren.
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- ‘Amongst the Lignum’ – gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren. There are 16 colours in the Jenny.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren. Egyptian pieces made with a French technique of gold thread overlaid with coloured thread. Over 400 hours of work.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren. Egyptian pieces made with a French technique of gold thread overlaid with coloured thread. Over 400 hours of work.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren. Made using an embellishing machine with 5 hooked needles.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren. Made using an embellishing machine with 5 hooked needles.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren. Made using a Japanese technique, with 5 shades of gold in 18 different sizes.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren
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- ‘Windows’, – a Moroccan piece – gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren.
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- Creative embroidery by Lesley Uren. Based on a trip to Antarctica where the waves were 30m high in rough churned seas.
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- Creative embroidery by Lesley Uren. Created in white, and dyed afterwards.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren.
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- Gold thread embroidery by Lesley Uren.
