Guilloche (needlework)

Guilloche (burning through fabric) is a needlework technique, which involves finishing products with openwork lace and making applications with burning using a special apparatus.

The technique of burning on silk (or rather etching drawings on silk) has been known for a long time. The fabric with a pattern obtained by burning (chemical etching) of a part of the fibers has a separate name - “ devore ”.

Zinaida Kotenkova became the author of the original tissue processing method, called “guilloche”. The method was first developed in the 1980s in Rybinsk , and in 1990 an author's certificate for the invention was obtained. Zinaida Kotenkova collaborated with fashion designer Vyacheslav Zaitsev , and also received a letter of thanks from Enne Burda , creator of the magazine “ Burda Moden ”.

Guilloche has become popular in Russia and abroad. With it, you can make products using applications: napkins , panels , bookmarks , postcards , notebooks , lace products in the style of Richelieu , etc.

Only synthetic fabrics are suitable for guilloche, since they do not burn when heated, but melt and become sticky: satin , nylon , nylon , raincoat fabrics , krimplen , fabrics with lurex , rayon , fine and thick knitwear , velvet , panne velvet , etc. The guilloche tool is a wood burning apparatus or a soldering iron with minor modifications.