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Michele Caragher 

Embroidered details in Game of Thrones 

‘Michele Carragher is a London-based Hand Embroiderer and Illustrator who has been working in costume on film and television productions for over 15 years. She studied Fashion Design at The London College of Fashion, where the course incorporated design, pattern cutting, garment construction, embroidery, millinery and illustration. At the same time she attended a three year evening course in Saddlery at Cordwainers College learning skills in leatherwork.

After leaving college Michele worked in Textile Conservation, repairing and restoring historical textiles for private collectors and museums, specialising in hand embroidery. She then moved into a career in costume for film and television, initially working as a Costume Assistant/Maker on productions such as the BBC’s Our Mutual Friend, ITV’s David Copperfield and Mansfield Park. She soon gravitated towards the decoration and embellishment of costumes, using skills in hand embroidery and surface decoration, taking inspiration from the many historical textiles she had encountered working as a Textile Conservator. 

The first production that saw her undertake the role of a Principal Costume Embroiderer was for HBO’s 2005 Emmy Costume award-winning production of Elizabeth 1. Her most recent work has been on HBO’s 2012 Costume award-winning television series Game of Thrones, working on all three seasons.

As a Costume Embroiderer Michele specialises in hand embroidery and surface embellishment, using traditional hand embroidery techniques, smocking, beading and surface decoration. She works directly onto the completed garment or starts with motifs and textures on silk crepeline/organza, which are applied to the costume and then worked into once on the actual garment. She also works on existing machine embroidery designs that are not too dense, adding some hand stitching and beading to give a more authentic, hand-finished look.

Michele finds hand embroidery has more flexibility and diversity than that of embroidery created by machine, as there is a greater variety of thread choice and colours to use. It is also possible to work more easily on garments that are already constructed. However, machine embroidery in combination with hand work can be very useful when completing many repeats by creating light outlines or a less dense machine stitch, work can then be completed by hand and again can be carried out on a finished garment.

Michele is a highly creative Costume Embroiderer, producing original designs as well as working closely to a costume designer’s brief to create their desired look.’

Text and images from  http://www.michelecarragherembroidery.com

Everyone just take a minute to appreciate the huge amount of work that goes into the detail of these costume. They are just amazing

ilikemyqueensevil:

Game of Thrones: The Exhibition - Daenerys Targaryen 2/2

omg, that detail!

arosenlund:

Game of Thrones Valentines - For that very special someone in your life (i.e. a nerd who loves wordplay), here’s a series of Game of Thrones Valentines. Brighten the day of that courtesan, dirt farmer, or Night’s Watch runaway whom holds your love captive by sending them one of these cards just in time for the holiday of love.

green-makakas:

Our Melisandre photos put together. One of the photo shoots from this year we’re really proud of. We were going to have another photo shoot with this cosplay last week, but sadly the weather didn’t play along. Hopefully, it’s going to happen this week.

The cosplay is an original book version.

OMG this is gorgeous!

gameofthronescostuming:

Game of Thrones Costuming - 2012 DragonCon MeetUp! (One of many)

Photos by Bill Watters

Some other pics from the awesome DragonCon Game of Thrones photoshoot!

p.s. I’m the Jon Snow posing with the AMAZING Samwell :D