We would like to start this post with “The beauty of handmade lies in those small imperfections. Anything perfect is machine made.”
Many strive for perfection but things have to be well designed, well made, well finished and not 100% perfect or they will lose that hand-made charm.
The beauty of imperfection dates back to early Japanese tradition with the concept of ‘Wabi-Sabi’, the discovery of beauty within imperfection, impermanence or the incomplete. Celebrating individuality within the handcrafted, irregular and imperfect, Wabi-Sabi has correlation with our very own luxury, artisan fabrics.
Every handcrafted fabric from www.couture–fabric.com has its own unique charm – the raw handmade quality and story behind each and every piece means that any difference or variation in design only adds to the exquisite visual appeal.
Now let’s find out how to understand if the fabric is handmade beaded or machine
Irregular Stitching
Most easiest way to define them are the stitching technique. Machine embroidery lace has very regular stitches on their back meanwhile the handmade embroidered handmade fabric has irregular stitches. Be aware that some market laces are machine embroidered and handmade in the same time to lower the costs. These fabrics are not 100% handmade and we do not sell like them.
Materials
Modern embroidery machines can embroidery thread, seed beads, small plastic pearls and some kind of sequins but they can not embroidery bugle beads, faceted beads, big pearls, flat back stones, sones with catcher and many other materials. Read our materials guide here
Weight
Modern embroidery machines use light materials due to the machine limitations meanwhile handmade embroidery fabrics are very heavy due to the use high quality materials like glass, metal ect. An other important fact is that the embroidery machines use much less embroidery density because they are not that precise.