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VIRTUAL ART WORKSHOP: Colcha Embroidery


Virtual Event - Dallas County

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: Colcha Embroidery
CLASS DATE: Sunday, August 23, 12-2pm
LOCAL REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 3 days before scheduled workshop
SHIPPING REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 7 days before scheduled workshop
LOCATION: Your home!
INSTRUCTOR: June Covington

I was introduced to Colcha Embroidery while visiting Española, New Mexico during Spring Break. (Back in the good old days, when you could walk into a shop, have a conversation, make a new friend).

Colcha Embroidery is a Spanish Colonial textile art which uses locally grown wool and dye plants. My new friend, Glenna Dean, is a retired Archaeologist who studies indigenous plants and their uses. The early Spanish settlers brought sheep with them to New Mexico in the  1400’s. They learned from their Pueblo neighbors about the local plants that made the best dyes.

Colcha can mean bedspread, in Spanish, but it also refers to this type of needlework, a description of the puffy stitches also called  “self-couching.”  Couched stitches appear in many Medieval Textiles, especially Liturgical Garments.  Couching requires a thin thread to hold down the thicker pattern yarns. With Colcha, the surface is covered and stitched down with the same thread.  This saves material and keeps the back of the fabric tidy.  In extant traditional works, the pattern is repeated on the back, over the colorful bumps of thread from the front. This reinforces the material and gives it more weight. 

The fabric, called Sabanilla, which used as a ground is made from local white churro sheep and hand-woven on a traditional  Española Loom. It looks like burlap, but it is soft.  It has sufficient body to be embroidered without a hoop. A welcome email will be sent the day before your workshop with login details for the class.

*Local kit pickup is available Tuesday-Friday, 2-4pm at Oil and Cotton. Kits will be left on our back deck or by the back door with your name clearly written. Please email with questions to [email protected].

*Distance learners can have their kits shipped only if you place your order 7 days before the scheduled workshop. Or you can gather the materials included in the kit from home. For this class you will need watercolor paints, a brush, and paper (preferably watercolor or a heavy weight paper).

Kit includes:
-thread
-fabric swatch
-needle
-handout

*If you would like additional materials such paints, paper or brushes, please purchase from our website and we will add to your kit.

This workshop is open to friends near and far. If you are registering with a friend please use the discount code BUDDY to receive 10% off of your registration. NO REFUNDS.

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Price
  • $75-$80


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Dallas, TX 75201


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