Getting some hand embroidery for your wedding dress or special outfit can make it really unique.
If you are on a budget, the smallest hand embroidery designs are not very expensive.
Give me a call to have a chat about what kind of hand embroidery is right for you.
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Hand Embroidery For Your Wedding Dress
A Really Unique Service
If you want to give your wedding dress that extra special touch, hand embroidery using silk threads, metallic threads or beads is a beautiful technique. It takes great skill to embroider a design by hand onto the panels of an expensive bridal gown.
Pam Sayer, of Pretty Things, took her first commission to hand bead a wedding dress at only age 17 and since then has worked on many outfits for wedding and special occasions, bringing together her unique talents at designing and working with beads and silk.
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.
How do I choose my hand embroidery?
Each embroidery design is drawn by hand for your approval and proposed threads and beads are shown so that you can choose exactly the colours that Pam uses. Pam will then work using the drawing and begin stitching the embroidery design to create your finished piece. Pretty Things has a wonderful selection of bead and thread colours for you to choose from.
How much will it cost?
Like all good craftsmanship, the cost depends on the work required. All designs are priced individually and depend on the materials and design complexity. All work is done by hand by Pam, a skilled designer with many years experience of hand embroidery, wedding gowns and beadwork.
Some cost examples are:
Copy of the Sarah Ferguson Bumble Bee (shown below) using seed and bugle beads. (Approx 2 inches long) - £45
3" deep, random scatter of glass seed (tiny) beads around the top edge of a strapless bodice/dress. Around £200
How do I get my dress hand embroidered?
If you think that you would love to have some hand embroidery on your wedding gown or special dress, take a closer look at the pictures of some of Pam's work by clicking on them and then read some more information about hand embroidery:
Find out more about about how Pam works on your dress.
See some close-up samples of Pretty Things hand embroidery.
Call Pam on 0800 612 9082 or contact Pretty Things.
