Elisabeth Roulleau

This course will be an introduction to understanding haute couture embroidery techniques. Using material such as silk organza, silk duppion, beads, tubes and paillettes 'on thread', you will be immersed in the haute couture embroidery world. You will work on a frame with the 'crochet de lunéville' hook and learn all the basics stitches: chain stitch, rich stitch, raised paillettes and vermicel. When your hand embroidery skills are well practiced you will then develop a personal project of embroidery for a fashion show. By the end of the course you will understand how it is important to be patient yet how it is very exciting to think about a model and how your new hand embroidery skills can create something beautiful.

Elisabeth Roulleau went to the Lesage School in Paris where she studied haute couture and decorative embroidery. She is a teacher in France where she has her own atelier, and she has worked for the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, Mulhouse, Esmod International, Parsons School of Design and Institut Français de la Mode. She has created several embroideries for Dior, Chanel and Azzaro, and she was invited by Hermès to make prototypes for the famous Carré de Soie.