Dispatch From Spain | The Embroidery Of Señorita Lylo
Wednesday, 16 March 2016
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| Project - Diario de una volatil |
Today we're excited to part the beautiful embroidery designs in addition to basis of Loly Ghirardi (aka Señorita Lylo), a graphic designer based inwards Barcelona Espana who's career merges with her arts and crafts inwards a actually unique way. With embroidery making such a tilt inwards fashion also correct now, nosotros were thrilled to orbit upon her colourful world. We sent her a few questions most her work.
Q. How long own got y'all been embroidering?
A. I started embroidery to a greater extent than or less vii years ago. I had the urge to distract my attending away from the estimator covert in addition to acquire closer with arts and crafts materials in addition to exercise go with my hands. I’ve ever had curiosity with the crafts, equally a kid I was an advanced crafter! I loved creating things with my hands, I used to play with clay in addition to used plants/flowers equally condiments of fictitious salads. I started to larn crochet, hence embroidery… in addition to that opened the door to a whole novel basis of learning pace yesteryear step.
I studied with unlike teachers, some with to a greater extent than technical profiles, others to a greater extent than playful. Summing the techniques, the tricks, visions in addition to clues each of my teachers advised me, subsequently on gave me the courage to exercise my ain style. Every sense in addition to mode left its footprint in addition to amongst the cocktail of stitches, textures in addition to secrets, I started visualising my projects.
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| Project - Diario de una volatil |
I also shape business office of the Barcelona based collective “La guerilla de ganxet” , where nosotros knit in addition to embroider wonderful creations to surprise the populace yesteryear taking the yarn in addition to thread bobbins out on the street of Barcelona, exposing those creations to say stories or claim messages most something. We ordinarily knit or embroider on a large scale with an XXL cross stitch, using the urban slice of furniture in addition to fences or decorating an indoors staircase with geometric shapes made out of yard for an effect of an editorial company.
The key key to accomplish a non-traditional embroidery slice is the media y'all use. Being creative in addition to imagining a canvass on almost whatever surface, similar on a brace of sneakers, a gate or a slice of garment. The stitches in addition to materials are the same simply changing the surface, takes your go on a unlike level, it gets to a greater extent than interesting in addition to to a greater extent than challenging! See to a greater extent than images here.
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| Project - La guerilla de ganxet |
Q. Do y'all sell your embroidery anywhere? Love those collars, are they for sale?
A. I’m currently inwards the middle of preparing my online store through Tictail and promise to own got it available soon. I volition hold upwardly selling the embroidered collars, a notebook with instructions on apartment in addition to relief stitches, in addition to also an embroidery kit that includes coloured thread, needles in addition to a confectioned neckband cook for y'all to decorate.
Q. Tell us how y'all started embroidering. We run across y'all are a graphic designer yesteryear day.
A. As a graphic designer (www.uauh.es), I wanted to innovate handcrafted notions or designs to our projects. I felt it would convey a to a greater extent than ‘human’ deport upon when dealing with the estimator screen. Embroidery tin hold upwardly hence various that I constitute my tick in addition to decided to include embroidery inwards projects that felt suitable in addition to would hold upwardly a slap-up match. For example, nosotros created an identity for a showroom that showcases local designers, where the logo of this showroom was embroidered. Also a recent collaboration was for the of Agustina Guerrero “Diario de una volatil” where nosotros elegantly combined illustration with embroidery. It was such a slap-up exit, that I decided to brand my modify ego Señorita Lylo acquire public. Ever since then, all my embroidery go was kept inwards a drawer.
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| For the mass "Wonderland , a wonderful trip " Written yesteryear Cristina Camrena @kireeimagazine in addition to illustrated yesteryear @ladydesidia |
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| Project - LeCoolBarcelona |
I’m real passionate inwards interpreting reality through unlike types of stitches. Imagining with what type of thread I tin sew together a hairstyle, mimic the texture of a for certain cloth or a flower. The composition is important, equally good equally the media used equally my working surface. If it has a story to tell, I acquire real motivated.
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| Project - LeCoolBarcelona |
A. Yes, I am currently working on a personal projection that consists inwards embroidering the street names where all the women inwards my household unit of measurement lived or are soundless living onto pieces of garments used yesteryear these women inwards my household unit of measurement in addition to that each of them gave me to purpose equally my canvas. It’s composed yesteryear numerous pieces, starting off with a handkerchief of my slap-up grandmother Maria who was from Sicily. She was a brave adult woman inwards her fourth dimension equally amongst her ii children crossed the sea to Argentine Republic to detect a improve hereafter for her family. Passing over to my grandmother Fina who decided to alive her destiny inwards Argentina, followed yesteryear my honey woman rear Alicia, who inherited the gift of preparing delicious nutrient in addition to filing with love the hearts of her children in addition to final simply non to the lowest degree ending inwards me who inwards my turn, is constantly searching for novel horizons hither inwards Barcelona.
Each address is a typographic composition respecting the master copy type fonts of the street names, equally good equally the other elements that complement the composition, similar the trouble solid numbers, the traffic signals of the cities, the urban gist in addition to reason they’ve lived in. I’ve recompiled photographs taken from my recent travels dorsum home, visiting our quondam in addition to novel neighbourhoods. I aim to go along a lineal sense when edifice the compositions in addition to transmit emotions when embroidering. I don’t similar working on independent pieces, simply rather I prefer to include various elements to say the story. As a designer, I apply my vision hence equally to the composition in addition to the colours used own got a meaning. Take it equally embroidered typography.
From slap-up grandmother, to grandmother, to woman rear in addition to to daughter...a generation of women laced together yesteryear passion to detect a habitation in addition to hold upwardly happy inwards it. I actually promise someday to exhibit this story inwards a gallery!
Apart from that, I’m working on ii collaborations with unlike artists. One is applying my embroidery onto jeans in addition to the other designing embroidery patterns for men's bow ties.
I would also similar to go on novel hands on tutorials in addition to move to a greater extent than or less Espana to learn them!
Q. I run across y'all are teaching an embroidery course.
A. I am extremely pleased to own got been offered to learn embroidery on the online platform Domestika, which allows access to a wider audience who wants to larn this art. I’m invited to their houses or studios through the estimator covert teaching them how to embroider with their ain rhythm. The community of woman mortal in addition to manlike mortal embroiderers that this course of report generates, fills me with excitement. (At the moment, this course of report is exclusively available inwards Spanish, yet it’s possible to hold upwardly subtitled inwards English linguistic communication real before long to orbit an fifty-fifty bigger audience). Click here for to a greater extent than info.
Thank y'all Loly! We're hence inspired!
Follow Señorita Lylo online:
Site: srtalylo.tumblr.com
Facebook: facebook.com/SrtaLylo
Instagram: instagram.com/srtalylo
