Japanese Embroidery Class

In November 2007, Jennifer Ashley Taylor came to the Florida panhandle to teach our guild Japanese embroidery. She is an EGA certified Master Craftsman in Color for Embroidery. She has taught Japanese Embroidery at Callaway every year since 1994. Sixteen of our guild members took this two-day class as an introduction to Japanese Embroidery. The class was held at the Gulf Breeze Library.

The picture above is the first day of the class. We are learning how to assemble the frame and transfer the design to the silk fabric.

Jennifer (seated with the working piece clamped to the table) is providing one to one instruction on how to lay the flat silk properly.

This is the second day of class. We are getting better and are actually working with our gold thread. Padding the butterfly body was fun.