Soutache embroidery

In this DIY I will show the main stages of working with hard soutache, tell you some secrets of how entry-level craftsmen can improve the quality of their work. More experienced craftsmen will be pleased to find here a detailed scheme and an assembly order of the decoration from separate elements. ...

Materials and tools 1. Yellow soutache. 2. Soutache with golden lurex. 3. Black button with a diameter of 4 cm. 4. Findings for round brooches. 5. Thread of yellow rondels, 2*3 mm. 6. Thread. 7. Thin needle. 8. Small piece of leather or suede. 9. Glue gun. 10. Lighter. To make a fastening ...

I got a task: to sew a Rivoli into a soutache item. I was going to take a relatively soft US soutache, but I failed to inset and attach a Rivoli rhinestone with glue having wrapped it with soutache and sewn them together: this kind of cord did not want to hold the rhinestone. I suffered a little ...