Teerasak Sakon

ผศ.ดร.ธีรศักดิ์ สะกล — Thammasat University, Lampang

Work — Graphic — 2015–2026

Computerised Embroidery — Textile Works

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Machine-embroidery works where the drawing is done in stitch: direction, density and underlay decided as design variables rather than left to the software's defaults.

Client
Self-initiated · ZIGZAG Studio · workshops
Role
Designer and digitiser
Year
2015–2026
Computerised Embroidery — Textile Works

Drawing in thread

Embroidery digitising is usually treated as a conversion step: hand the software a vector, accept what it produces. The results look like a printed graphic that has been forced through a needle.

These works treat stitch as the drawing medium. Stitch direction is chosen so that light catches the motif the way the design intends; density is tuned to the substrate, dropping on knit and rising on denim; underlay is designed rather than defaulted, because it is what stops a satin stitch from sinking.

Teaching it

The same material is taught as a workshop for the Textile and Fashion Design programme — computerised embroidery from first principles through to producing finished pattern files in PE-DESIGN.

Figure motif on knit, where stitch density has to fall as the fabric stretches.
Figure motif on knit, where stitch density has to fall as the fabric stretches.
Thai lettering embroidered on quilted outerwear.
Thai lettering embroidered on quilted outerwear.
Detail — the letterform rebuilt as stitch paths rather than traced as an outline.
Detail — the letterform rebuilt as stitch paths rather than traced as an outline.
Raised puff embroidery on a cap crown.
Raised puff embroidery on a cap crown.
Botanical motif on canvas, single colourway.
Botanical motif on canvas, single colourway.
Applied across a garment run.
Applied across a garment run.