Luneville embroidery by crochet - easy schemes and master classes for beginners, photo ideas and examples

Embroidery is an activity for the assiduous and patient. Stitch by stitch is born handmade fabulous patterns. Embroidered cross, satin, beads, ribbons. There is another very interesting technique. It is called - luneville embroidery.

Features of luneville embroidery

A distinctive feature of this type of needlework is that they embroider with threads, sequins, beads and various beads with a special hook on thin transparent fabrics, less often - on dense.

Both hands are involved in the work. The left hand holds the thread under the material, and the right hand holds the hook on top of the fabric.

Occupation is very time-consuming, but when mastered is absolutely uncomplicated. This unusual kind of embroidery came to Russia from France (small town Luvenil) and won many fans here.

Products embroidered in this style, characterized by unusual beauty and elegance. Most often, beads and sequins embroider wedding and evening dresses, as well as decorate accessories and furnishings.

Materials and tools for work

In order to master the technique of luneville embroidery, you will need to buy the necessary tools and materials. Beginner craftswomen at the beginning it is enough to purchase:

1. Thread. Must be very strong, but thin. Specialized polyester threads of varying densities are sold in craft stores. For the first lessons, ordinary sewing threads are also suitable.
2. Sets of beads, sequins, beads, artificial pearls. You can buy Chinese or Czech beads, as well as Swarovski pearls. Beginners do not care what kind of beads to embroider with.
3. Double needle for a set of beads.
4. Frames or hoops to stretch the fabric.
5. Specialized luneville hook (#70 is better). Crochet is something that even beginner embroiderers should not skimp on. On its quality depends the process and the result of the work. The tool is a special needle with a bent tip, inserted into the handle. The handle has a special screw - a stitch direction indicator.
6. Pattern templates (stencils for translation).
7. Disappearing marker (a special pen, the ink of which disappears from exposure to hot steam). If you don't have one, a regular pencil or ballpoint pen will do the job just fine for the first stage of learning.
8. Small scissors to cut the excess thread.
9. A piece of transparent or thick fabric. Usually use: batiste, tulle, chiffon, organza, crepe, velvet. For beginners, mesh would be ideal.

It is easier to start with the basics with inexpensive material and equipment. The main thing is a handy hook and a good frame.

Luneville crochet embroidery for beginners: schemes and descriptions

An interesting French embroidery technique is mastered not immediately. At first it seems that it is very difficult and only experienced embroiderers can cope. In fact, there is no difficulty.

There is something else. Lack of skill, experience and the ability to properly hold the hook for the first time will slow down the process of work. Fingers will not immediately begin to obey and perform the task assigned to them. The skill will come only in a practical way.

It is better to practice every day for an hour or at least 30 minutes. Always choose a quality hook for work. It does not cost a lot of money, but it will help a lot in the work.

Preparation of the fabric

Beginners do not need to use for work a piece of expensive transparent fabric.

For this purpose, a flap of netting material will suit perfectly: he and the minimum tension and rigidity is good, and the holes in the fibers are larger than in other fabrics.

To start embroidering, you need to stretch the fabric on a frame or an embroidery frame and fasten it well so it does not wiggle.

When the technique will be mastered, then you can buy a professional frame - cu-snap. It's like no one better suited for luneville embroidery. But at first you can do with a hoop.

Working with a pattern

For the transfer of patterns use special stencils (they are on sale), templates, images created by your own hands. The best way to learn plant motifs: leaves, flowers, patterned ornaments.

Also try embroidery, starting with the simplest geometric shapes: circle, triangle, square. You can try stripes, flat lines, while mastering the stitch.

Stitching.

The very first thing that beginners need to master in the luneville technique is thread stitching. When working, the hands are on both sides of the product, but when embroidering, they work on the wrong side. It turns out very neat, unlike other types of embroidery.

The process is as follows:

1. On the wrong side of the fabric cut, you need to transfer the selected pattern with a stencil or tracing paper, or draw.
2. Take the end of the thread in your hands. Place your right hand on top and your left hand under the piece. Why it is better to use transparent fabric for training: you can see the actions of the hand.
3. Make a loop on the thread (airy as in knitting with a regular crochet) and hold it on your index finger. From the wrong side, insert the hook into the fabric (from top to bottom) and hook the groove of the hook into the loop. Pull the buttonhole upward, turning the hook 180 degrees to one side or the other, so that it does not catch the fabric and threads when pulled out (similar to knitting). When embroidering, the stitches are sewn in the direction that the needle tip is pointing. When installing the needle in the handle, the rod is adjusted so that the special screw on the handle and the tip of the hook look in the same direction.
4. It is necessary to fix the thread by making a knot. To do this, when you insert the hook grab the thread from the short edge and twice perform millimeter steps, then the thread is dragged to the wrong side, tighten and cut off (so it does not go loose you can apply a drop of glue, which will not give yellowing on the product. In the same way make a knot at the end of the embroidery).
5. Then, after a few millimeters, insert the hook back into the material, catch the thread with the spout and pull it out by turning the hook. Stitches are made with a screw in the direction of the embroidery. The technique is similar to crocheting with a large pigtail hook, but through the fabric.
6. To make a turn (such as when embroidering a leaf) in the other direction, you need to make a small stitch, and then change the direction of the tool: where will look furrow of the hook and screw on it, and there will go stitches. But when pulling out the hook will rotate.
7. As a result, the wrong side should be a tambour (or tapestry) stitch pigtail, and the right side - stitch.

Luneville embroidery is a very time-consuming needlework. Learn to embroider beautifully in a similar technique is possible, but practice needs constant practice.

Features of beadwork

It is no more difficult to embroider with beads than without them. In other needlework techniques, the beads are threaded on a needle and pierced through the fabric to secure them, but in lunéville style, a tapestry or tambour stitch is made with the beads on the same thread.

To start the work, pick up beads or beads and string them with a double needle on a thread: you get beads. Here these beads are embroidered.

The process of work:

1. First, put the thread on the finger, so that the tip was in the direction of the embroiderer, and the remaining edge with the strung pearls or beads hung freely. It should leave a few centimeters free of beads to tuck in a bead by a bead.
2. There is one loop on the hook. Beads hang in the hand under the product.
3. The hook is inserted into the fabric, pulling up one bead and taking the thread through it and dragging it up: the step is the size of the bead.
4. Next, the tool is inserted into the fabric again, pulling up another bead and grabbing the thread exactly through it.
5. Embroider the entire pattern with one thread until it runs out.

Beads for the embroidery can be used absolutely different. Very beautiful look beads "Swarovski": they imitate various gemstones.

Usually such beads are used to create costume jewelry. It is possible to buy a beautiful imitation of pearls. The most inexpensive beads are Chinese, but they are quite good. There are also Czech, Japanese, and more expensive - Italian.

Options for products

Luneville embroidery is used to decorate:

• clothing, especially chic wedding and evening dresses;
• Accessories: handbags, lanyards, scarves, cosmetic bags, headbands, etc.;
• Curtains, pillows, upholstered furniture.

In this style they embroider pictures, which are placed in beautiful frames and hung in any room. And, if in order to embroider a dress, it is necessary to select threads, beads and sequins, suitable in color to the outfits.

But in the case of paintings you can give free rein to your creative imagination not only in terms of ornaments, drawings, but also in the use of all kinds of colors of threads and beads.

Ready-made clothes in this technique are not embroidered, and perform the work on separate pieces of fabric and then sew on the garment.

Wedding dresses decorated with ornaments, made in the technique of luneville embroidery, affecting its luxury and sophistication.

A bride in such an embroidered dress will attract rapturous glances not only from the groom but also from everyone around. Any thing with embroidered embellishment will inevitably become exclusive and royally beautiful.

Photo ideas and schemes of luneville embroidery