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Wooden embroidery hoops, what are they, how you use them, what choices you have & how you display them?

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  What is Embroidery Hoop? Embroidery hoops  are made by two pieces of wooden panels that can be put together as a single unit and in which we adjust a piece of fabric in stretch position. So, basically we have one piece of complete wooden frame that is smaller in size and one bigger frame with a screw at top to loose or tight it. How you use the Embroidery hoop? You keep the smaller frame at the bottom of the fabric and then put the frame with screw on top of the fabric and fit it on the smaller hoop. Then you start adjusting the fabric in between the hoops with little stretch in all directions. Make sure that the fabric doesn’t have any crease and is equally stretch in all directions. Never stretch the fabric in one direction because then the fabric weave get distorted and your finished embroidered fabric will not fall gracefully or in straight fall direction. Once you are happy with the fabric position in between the frame then carefully tight the screw. This way the fabric...

Making of different type of Metallic French wire for Embroidery & Jewelry embellishments.

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Original   French wires   were made from real silver and gold bars in earlier times. But with pricing going up the alloy metal got changed. These days you will get French wires made from Iron or from Copper alloys. Never buy metallic wires made from Iron because they rust very fast and doesn’t have long shelf life. You can always find out about it by simple magnate test. The metallic wires made from copper are the best but they also have different quality standards. For ex: - silver metallic wires are best in shine and consistency when it has 10% real silver and remaining 90% copper.  The silver metallic wire is usually the most expensive one in the lot. The manufacture must know that how much amount of silver to add in making wires because silver has a basic quality of turning black with time if its not polished regularly. So, that’s why the metallic wires shouldn’t be made from high consistency of silver also.  Other color wires like gold, black, green; blue also h...