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
Photoshoot of Le Fil wearing the completed dress.
Sample of the front section, using gold, white, black and green threads. Many samples were created to ensure the embroidery worked with the difficult fabric.
Checking the embroidery in a 3D form, with sleeve toile. Does it still work?
Digitising roses using Wilcom Software. This stage can not be underestimated, it's where the stitches are added to the compostion.
Direct to dress designing using felt pens to work out composition and scale.