A brilliant workshop with Hanny, on contemporary goldwork. Hanny showed us several techniques and suggestions as to how to get started with goldwork.
She explained the different goldwork threads that are available and with a little experimentation we discovered which ones worked best for ourselves.
Couching is quite often the main technique used, but by splitting the threads and adding more together, you can get very different effects.
Also using purl and pearl purl threads many different effects can be obtained by cutting different lengths, called chips, and applying them in different ways. Some samples are below.
