This beautiful technique, sometimes known as ‘painting with a needle’, uses a number of colours in cotton or silk threads, skilfully blended together to create the natural appearance of a flower, fruit, plant or animal.

This beautiful technique, sometimes known as ‘painting with a needle’, uses a number of colours in cotton or silk threads, skilfully blended together to create the natural appearance of a flower, fruit, plant or animal.

Silk shading fox by Zinaida Kazban on our advanced silk shading course

Silk shading courses

Examples of Silk Shading from the RSN

floral silk shading is commonly seen on on eof silk shading courses
Tailor of Gloucs Willimasburg, silk shading at the rsn
Mothers day at RSN
silk shaded pansy produced at the rsn
tudor rose being made by an rsn student
silk shaded rabbit by rsn silk shading course student
Zinaida Kazban Advanced Silk Shading
Embroided flamingo by Amy Burt future RSN tutor
silk shaded dog made in Advanced Silk Shading Diploma course