Golden Embroidery Tutorials

Thanks to our tutorials, learn the ancestral art of gold embroidery. Make original brooches by embroidering cannetille. You can accompany this"golden thread" with some seed beads. Want to know more about gold embroidery? Discover the list of materials to use, technical terms and tips to make incredible brooches or decorations. You can also make jewelry with it!

Gold embroidery is usually done with gold and silver threads. In the past, these embroideries adorned religious, military or royal clothing. Today, it is mostly found on the catwalks of haute-couture and among passionate artisans.

Cannetille is a flexible metal tube. It is actually a flexible metal wire that is wound in a tubular fashion, much like a spring. Cannetille can be smooth, curly, and in multiple colors and sizes. To use it in embroidery, it is cut to the desired size and embroidered like a bead. Some canetille can be used to protect wired threads for jewelry and to make joining rings. In this case, a stronger cannetille is used with a thinner and less flexible thread than that used for embroidery.