Michele Caragher
Embroidered details in Game of Thrones
‘Michele Carragher is a London-based Hand Embroiderer and Illustrator who has been working in costume on film and television productions for over 15 years. She studied Fashion Design at The London College of Fashion, where the course incorporated design, pattern cutting, garment construction, embroidery, millinery and illustration. At the same time she attended a three year evening course in Saddlery at Cordwainers College learning skills in leatherwork.
After leaving college Michele worked in Textile Conservation, repairing and restoring historical textiles for private collectors and museums, specialising in hand embroidery. She then moved into a career in costume for film and television, initially working as a Costume Assistant/Maker on productions such as the BBC’s Our Mutual Friend, ITV’s David Copperfield and Mansfield Park. She soon gravitated towards the decoration and embellishment of costumes, using skills in hand embroidery and surface decoration, taking inspiration from the many historical textiles she had encountered working as a Textile Conservator.
The first production that saw her undertake the role of a Principal Costume Embroiderer was for HBO’s 2005 Emmy Costume award-winning production of Elizabeth 1. Her most recent work has been on HBO’s 2012 Costume award-winning television series Game of Thrones, working on all three seasons.
As a Costume Embroiderer Michele specialises in hand embroidery and surface embellishment, using traditional hand embroidery techniques, smocking, beading and surface decoration. She works directly onto the completed garment or starts with motifs and textures on silk crepeline/organza, which are applied to the costume and then worked into once on the actual garment. She also works on existing machine embroidery designs that are not too dense, adding some hand stitching and beading to give a more authentic, hand-finished look.
Michele finds hand embroidery has more flexibility and diversity than that of embroidery created by machine, as there is a greater variety of thread choice and colours to use. It is also possible to work more easily on garments that are already constructed. However, machine embroidery in combination with hand work can be very useful when completing many repeats by creating light outlines or a less dense machine stitch, work can then be completed by hand and again can be carried out on a finished garment.
Michele is a highly creative Costume Embroiderer, producing original designs as well as working closely to a costume designer’s brief to create their desired look.’
Text and images from http://www.michelecarragherembroidery.com
Now I know what I want to be when I grow up.
is this real…? http://www.deviantart.com/art/Giant-Pinkie-completed-363073893
As the derpy person in the photo I can confirm that she is very real. ;) She’s also spying on me right now
Recently completed for a trade with my plushing friend *SilkenCat.
My most detailed plush to date!
This is an amazing plush! Nice work Xsystem, can’t wait to see what you have in store for the future :)
4th Dimension Entertainment, publisher of high quality content such as Lackadaisy, Knite and The Phoenix Requiem are moving into plushies with MLP.
“The plush in the first and second assortments will be available for purchase at your local comic book retailer, at various tradeshows and…
O_O It has been very busy in my plush Medbay. My human is preparing for TFCon this summer, we will be taking all of these and more up there. We still have to spark some plushbots.
Oh, I forgot to mention, you can adopt a few that my human puts into her etsy shop … that is, if you don’t want to wait.
