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Hawthorne & Heaney visits McQueen’s Old Bond Street Show Space

February 6, 2020 by Natasha Searls-Punter

Hawthorne & Heaney visits McQueen's Old Bond Street Show Space London Hand Embroidery

London is very lucky to be able to offer a wealth of great free exhibitions and museums on many subjects. This open to all attitude really helps to keep feeding the minds of our designers and innovaters that one can go out and have your eyes opened to all sorts of  information. One such jem that might be a little lesser known is the top floor of the flagship Alexander McQueen store on Old Bond Street.

Hawthorne & Heaney visits McQueen's Old Bond Street Show Space London Hand Embroidery Hawthorne & Heaney visits McQueen's Old Bond Street Show Space London Hand Embroidery

Hawthorne & Heaney visits McQueen's Old Bond Street Show Space London Hand Embroidery

They have started to use the stop floor as more of an exhibition type space, sharing insights from the vast archives that the house of McQueen holds. At the moment, the space is dedicated to roses, curated by the Creative Director Sarah Burton.

Hawthorne & Heaney visits McQueen's Old Bond Street Show Space London Hand Embroidery Hawthorne & Heaney visits McQueen's Old Bond Street Show Space London Hand Embroidery Hawthorne & Heaney visits McQueen's Old Bond Street Show Space London Hand Embroidery Hawthorne & Heaney visits McQueen's Old Bond Street Show Space London Hand Embroidery

What we found really special about this space, as an embroiderer in particular is that you can get right up close to the pieces to see the details often lost in show and large scale exhibitions. Something that we found even with very well done exhibitions like Savage Beauty. In addition to this they are sharing a lot of the background research and technical craftsmanship that goes into making a collection and show with this kind of dramatic results. There are development moodboards, fitting notes, embroidery placements onto pattern pieces and draping directed onto the model. There is also a viewing booth with footage from the shows to fully round out the experience and see it in the final context for which it was intended to be consumed.

Hawthorne & Heaney visits McQueen's Old Bond Street Show Space London Hand Embroidery Hawthorne & Heaney visits McQueen's Old Bond Street Show Space London Hand Embroidery

If you find yourself in the area, it’s definately worth a trip it to see some beautiful things and get some of the background scoop on how these things all come together. The notes and quotes from behind the scenes really give you a sense of being emersed into their world. We are already looking forward

Hawthorne & Heaney visits McQueen's Old Bond Street Show Space London Hand Embroidery Hawthorne & Heaney visits McQueen's Old Bond Street Show Space London Hand Embroidery Hawthorne & Heaney visits McQueen's Old Bond Street Show Space London Hand Embroidery

Filed Under: Embroidery, Fashion, London, Tailoring Tagged With: Alexander Mcqueen, atelier, couture, design, embroidery, exhibition, fashion, Lee McQueen, London, mcqueen, Old bond street, show, textiles, texture

Hawthorne & Heaney for Watts and Co.

January 30, 2020 by Natasha Searls-Punter

 

Hawthorne & Heaney for Watts and Co. London Hand EmbroideryJust a short one today, but we really wanted to share this stunning ‘three keys’ cope design we produced for Watts and Co last year. The combination of colours really pops, makes us think that yellow is a bit under used when it looks this good on mass.

Hawthorne & Heaney for Watts and Co. London Hand Embroidery

The keys themselves are all bullion work in silver, in a combination of smooth and rough purl for texure . Edges in Pearle purl for defination. Hawthorne & Heaney for Watts and Co. London Hand Embroidery

Filed Under: Art, ceremonial, Embroidery, London Tagged With: bullion work, church, cope, ecclesiastical, fringing, goldwork, keys, metal work, navy, watts and co, yellow

Hawthorne & Heaney for Nygaards Bataljon

January 23, 2020 by Natasha Searls-Punter

Hawthorne & Heaney for Nygaards Bataljon London Hand Embroidery

In celebration of their 162nd anniversary, The Nygaards Bataljon from Norway commisioned us to produce a new flag for their ceremonies. The Nygaards Bataljon is a corps for boys from Norway founded in 1857.

Hawthorne & Heaney for Nygaards Bataljon London Hand Embroidery

As part of the celebrations they toured around Denmark, visiting some stunning locations in Aarhus, Sommerland and back to Bergen (Norway).

Hawthorne & Heaney for Nygaards Bataljon London Hand Embroidery

Here are a couple of clos ups of the flag now you have seen it out and about in action. 

Hawthorne & Heaney for Nygaards Bataljon London Hand Embroidery

Hawthorne & Heaney for Nygaards Bataljon London Hand Embroidery

The stitching of the castle was pretty dense and rich on this double sided banned, and I’m sure you will agree that the yellow on the blue ground is very striking. The embroidery was finished off with a luxurious navy fringing around the edge. Hawthorne & Heaney for Nygaards Bataljon London Hand Embroidery

Filed Under: Art, ceremonial, Embroidery Tagged With: castle, ceremonial, corps, digital embroidery, flag, machine embroidery, norway, norwegian, nygaards bataljon

Hawthorne & Heaney for Dior Perfumes

January 16, 2020 by Natasha Searls-Punter

Hawthorne & Heaney for Dior Perfumes London Hand Embroidery2019 was a very busy Christmas period for us, because along with all the Ugg events we were doing, amongst other brands, we also did a series of event for Dior Perfumes.

Hawthorne & Heaney for Dior Perfumes London Hand EmbroideryDuring this machine embroidery event, we were offering personalisation of the gift bags that came with the perfume purchase. Guest could choose from 3 designs or lettering onto their bags.

Hawthorne & Heaney for Dior Perfumes London Hand Embroidery

Hawthorne & Heaney for Dior Perfumes London Hand EmbroideryThe bees proved to be particulally popular as you can see!

Hawthorne & Heaney for Dior Perfumes London Hand Embroidery

Hawthorne & Heaney for Dior Perfumes London Hand EmbroideryAll in gold, of course to match the stunning stands we were house in.

Hawthorne & Heaney for Dior Perfumes London Hand Embroidery

Hawthorne & Heaney for Dior Perfumes London Hand Embroidery

Hawthorne & Heaney for Dior Perfumes London Hand Embroidery

If you have an event in mind that you would like to get us involved with, drop us an email to info@embroidery.london to discuss what we can do for you.

Filed Under: Embroidery, Fashion, Logos, London, London Embroidery, Monograms Tagged With: 2019. christmas, digital embroidery, dior, embroidery, events, gold, jadore, machine embroidery, purfume

Hawthorne & Heaney for Watts and Co

January 10, 2020 by Natasha Searls-Punter

Hawthorne & Heaney for Watts and Co London Hand Embroidery

 

Last year, we had the pleasure of making this banner embroidery for legendary company, Watts and Co. It is for the Church of the Incarnation, Highlands, NC. The church’s emblem has been embroidered onto exclusive Watts Blue Bellini silk damask, finished with silk bullion fringe. ⁠⠀

 

Hawthorne & Heaney for Watts and Co London Hand Embroidery

We included lots of raisings and textures in this piece to make it look as rich and luxurious as possible. We are particulally pleased with the fish and the cross’s halo, what’s your favourite bit?

Filed Under: Art, ceremonial, Embroidery, London Tagged With: church, church of the incarnation, ecclesiastical, embroidery, episcopal, machine embroidery, textiles, texture, watts and co

Hawthorne & Heaney on Sketchy Machine Embroidery

January 2, 2020 by Natasha Searls-Punter

We thought we would share with you,  an exciting project we worked on at the end of last year that we were really pleased with the result of.Hawthorne & Heaney on Sketchy Machine Embroidery London Hand EmbroideryWe had a client that wanted to give a sketchy feel to their anatomical artworks of the heart and liver, encorportating loose threads into the stitching.

Hawthorne & Heaney on Sketchy Machine Embroidery London Hand EmbroideryWe thought the results were really good fun, if a little scary in the end! It has got us thinking where else we might be able to use this idea again…

Hawthorne & Heaney on Sketchy Machine Embroidery London Hand Embroidery

Filed Under: Embroidery, Fashion, London, London Embroidery Tagged With: anatomical, biological, digital embroidery, embroidery, heart, liver, loose threads, machine embroidery, stitching

Hawthorne & Heaney visit’s S.E.W’s International Contemporary Stitched Art Exhibition

December 26, 2019 by Natasha Searls-Punter

Last month, the Society for Embroidered Works held their very first exhibiton dedicated solely to embroidery. The International Contemporary Stitched Art Exhibiton was held in a characterful space in Clerkenwell, the turn out for quite a niche exhibition looked to be pretty good.

Hawthorne & Heaney visit's S.E.W's International Contemporary Stitched Art Exhibition London Hand Embroidery

‘Despite her strength she remained on guard 1’ 25×21 cm by Christina MacDonald

The exhibition a great cross section of stitched art in its many forms, as you can see from the few photos included here, the range was quite broad so there was a little something to interest everyone.

Hawthorne & Heaney visit's S.E.W's International Contemporary Stitched Art Exhibition London Hand Embroidery

‘Lady Gaga’ 34×34 cm by Sarah Gwyer

Providing a platform for stitched art is an important step in elevating the stitched art’s status within the artwork as historically it has been downgraded from art and though of more as ‘women’s work’ or ‘home crafts’. Whilst one might argue these terms to be fair, it would be equally fair to say that given the skills and conceptual strenghts of these pieces shown are most certainly ‘art’.

Hawthorne & Heaney visit's S.E.W's International Contemporary Stitched Art Exhibition London Hand Embroidery

‘A Benediction  from the Old World’ 62×46 cm by Kate Tume

Presenting them in this manner is an important part of S.E.W’s bigger mission to ‘redefine’ the stitched arts to a more apropriate status. If you would like to read more about S.E.W’s mission, have a look at their website.

Hawthorne & Heaney visit's S.E.W's International Contemporary Stitched Art Exhibition London Hand Embroidery

‘Sisters’ 56x72cm by Bridget Steel-Jessop

Given the level of work on display at this first exhibition, we can’t wait to see what they will present to the art world next year!

Hawthorne & Heaney visit's S.E.W's International Contemporary Stitched Art Exhibition London Hand Embroidery

‘The girl of the Vale’ 33x30cm by Rowena Liley

Filed Under: Art, Embroidery, London, London Embroidery Tagged With: Bridget Steel- Jessop, christina MacDonald, clerkenwell gallery, embroidery, embroidery is art, hand embroidery, kate tume, machine stitching, rowena liley, sarah gwyer, society for embroidered works, stitched art

Hawthorne & Heaney for Miss World

December 19, 2019 by Natasha Searls-Punter

Saturday was the big night of the year for beauty pagentry as it was the final of 2019’s Miss World competition, held in London’s Excel center. This year’s winner, Toni-Ann Singh from Jamaica was crowned this year’s winner, beutifully modelling Hawthorne & Heaney made winner’s sash.

Hawthorne & Heaney for Miss World London Hand EmbroideryImage Credit @missworld

Singh wowed the judges with her ambition to become a medical doctor when she finishes her current studies in Women’s studies and Psychology at Florida State University and her classical opera singing skills.

Hawthorne & Heaney for Miss World London Hand EmbroideryImage Credit @mrworld.official

Here Singh poses with the current Mr World, Jack Heslewood aslo wearing his Hawthorne & Heaney made scarf.

We were particulally pleased with the addition of the glitter lettering which, under the lights of the stage, really came into its own. Hawthorne & Heaney for Miss World London Hand Embroidery

 

Filed Under: Embroidery, Fashion, London Tagged With: 2019, beauty pagent, crystals, embroidery hand embroidery, jack heslewood, machine embroidery, miss world, mr world, sash, toni ann singh, winner

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