Geeboo
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When I 1st saw this jacket from the book King of vintage, I immediate like it by 1st glance. I want to own it.
Not until 2 yrs approx., I started to source an Indian chief head patch & sew it on a type III jacket. The result is ok but still is not what I want.
Then not until very recently I start to actually do the embroidery.
The highest grade denim players are actually wearing these embroidery denim jacket on himself as U saw from the videos of the Conners Sewing factory owner - his is more towards flighter jacket graphics, mine is more towards motorcycle graphics - the Indian chief head. They are sewn by machines as he has got the right machine to do it. I have to sewn by hand :<
Then I started figuring out what makes a good embroidery.
The 4th pic is sewn by 1 thread - you see the smoothest of the face, the disadvantage being very very very timing consuming
The 5th pic is sewn by a full 6 thread - you see the differences
The 6th pic is the finest called " thread painting" - a kind of realistic drawing by thread.
The 7th pic is a similar graphic done on a denim jacket - not upto what i want'
The last few pics is the WIP - I use 3 threads, middle of the road. very, very very time consuming, I estimate it will take a total of 100 hours + to finish it. Please note I had to do a sketch painting in pencils to learn the shading of the face in order to determine the color to use in the threads.
Not until 2 yrs approx., I started to source an Indian chief head patch & sew it on a type III jacket. The result is ok but still is not what I want.
Then not until very recently I start to actually do the embroidery.
The highest grade denim players are actually wearing these embroidery denim jacket on himself as U saw from the videos of the Conners Sewing factory owner - his is more towards flighter jacket graphics, mine is more towards motorcycle graphics - the Indian chief head. They are sewn by machines as he has got the right machine to do it. I have to sewn by hand :<
Then I started figuring out what makes a good embroidery.
The 4th pic is sewn by 1 thread - you see the smoothest of the face, the disadvantage being very very very timing consuming
The 5th pic is sewn by a full 6 thread - you see the differences
The 6th pic is the finest called " thread painting" - a kind of realistic drawing by thread.
The 7th pic is a similar graphic done on a denim jacket - not upto what i want'
The last few pics is the WIP - I use 3 threads, middle of the road. very, very very time consuming, I estimate it will take a total of 100 hours + to finish it. Please note I had to do a sketch painting in pencils to learn the shading of the face in order to determine the color to use in the threads.
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