This beautiful technique, sometimes known as ‘painting with a needle’, uses a number of colours in cotton or silk threads, skilfully blended together to create the natural appearance of a flower, fruit, plant or animal.

This beautiful technique, sometimes known as ‘painting with a needle’, uses a number of colours in cotton or silk threads, skilfully blended together to create the natural appearance of a flower, fruit, plant or animal.

Silk shading fox by Zinaida Kazban on our advanced silk shading course

Upcoming Silk Shading courses

Self-Paced Video Online Courses

Silk Shading is a beautiful technique that uses Long and Short stitches to create realistic colour blending, achieving smooth transitions between the different tones. Our Self-Paced Video Online Courses offer an ‘Introduction to Silk Shading’ as well as a ‘Next Steps’ course combining ‘Goldwork & Silk Shading’.

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