Le Fil - Ru Paul's Drag Race UK - Season 4
This dress was designed and created to represent Le Fil's Chinese and Yorkshire heritage. The embroidery was manually designed on the dress toile, digitised using Wilcom software and embroidered on a single needle Janome embroidery machine. The threads are poly 40 from GS UK and the fabric a white duchess satin. The dress was worn by Le Fil for the finale of Ru Paul's Drag Race UK, 2022. A step by step on how I split and embroider the roses can be read in a feature article in Images Magazine.
Kingfly
West Yorkshire, England
Le Fil modeling the completed dress., Helen TurnerPhotoshoot of Le Fil wearing the completed dress.
Yorkshire Roses Sample., David MorrishSample of the front section, using gold, white, black and green threads. Many samples were created to ensure the embroidery worked with the difficult fabric.
Development Image, working 2D and 3D, David MorrishChecking the embroidery in a 3D form, with sleeve toile. Does it still work?
Digitising Roses, David MorrishDigitising roses using Wilcom Software. This stage can not be underestimated, it's where the stitches are added to the compostion.
Designing the Image, David MorrishDirect to dress designing using felt pens to work out composition and scale.