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Hawthorne & Heaney to the Rescue!

March 28, 2018 by Eleanor Rowlands

There is nothing worse when a beloved item of clothing becomes damaged! whether it be a tear or a pesky moth has taken a bite.

While this may feel like the end of an item. Fear not, with a bit of embroidery we can bring your garment back to life!

With some tricks up our sleeves and a creative eye. We brought new life to this cashmere coat with some Goldwork bees!

Even though there were only a few holes we added more bees to make them a feature of the coat.

We have also come to the aid of split seams! this beautiful tartan jacket came to us. One of our very talented embroiderer, designed this stunning humming bird with blues and yellows.

One Bird just want enough!

Let us know your thoughts!

Hawthorne & Heaney needs you !

March 2, 2018 by Claire Sarah Barrett

OPEN CALL and VIP ACCESS

As artisans we are drawn to beautiful things.

The art we work on is a reflection of our taste and dedication.

We asked ourselves why shouldn’t the the luxury we surround ourselves with daily be reflected in the tools of our trade.

As embroiderers, frustrated with hunting through the ever dwlinding treasure trove of vintage and second hand, we decided to create some tools that would be a pleasure to use, collect and admire.

After all the journey is as important as the destination !

The Heaney’s Haberdashery team want you to tell us about the tools you use. Let us know your favourites and the reasons behind why.

We are developing some long lost gems and we need your feedback on what tools you would like to see and why.

Sign up to the Newsletter to find out how you can get involved, VIP access to limited edition runs, Early Bird discount codes and updates on our progress.

Hawthorne & Heaney for Young Designers

August 11, 2016 by Natasha Searls-Punter

At this time of year we are lucky enough to get a sneak peak at some of the freshest fashion talent around as Students from all over contact us with their ideas for their final collections. This insight into the future of fashion is always so exciting to see and often pushes us beyond our usual style or way of approaching a project. This year we have been working with designers such as Mary Ashcroft, Naomi Bartling and Palmina Cerullo.

Mary Ashcroft has a bold aesthetic, using machine embroidery also to add large strokes of texture to her piece emulating a paint brush. With this piece she brings together multiple textures of fabric as the embroidery act as the seam between Mac plastic, Velvet and Felt. This exposes the way the fabrics react differently to the introduction of the embroidery with the punched out nature of the plastic and the way the pile of the velvet peeks through the heavy stitching on the velvet areas.

Naomi Bartling took a very different approach to the other graduates, using embroidery to bring together many different elements to built a multitude of colour texture and interest. This eclectic approach to her embroidery created some really eye catching pieces as we took apart existing hair pieces and corsages, and reassembled them. We also produced this moss covered piece for her, embellished with a range of 3D beaded motifs.

Palmina Cerullo from the University for the Creative Arts went for a more traditional embroidery route, with her hand embroidered blue bullion work chair designs. The punchy colours of the bullion stands out wonderfully against the suiting fabrics.

If you would like to get in contact with us about a project you are working on, please drop us an email, we would love to hear your ideas…

Hawthorne & Heaney on Aging Goldwork

June 10, 2016 by Natasha Searls-Punter

There are some jobs that the whole point of the embrodiery is to make it look ancient or to replace a damaged piece on an exisiting old garment, in these cases having a shiny new piece of goldwork in there would really stand out and not look right. Luckily there are ways of aging goldwork quickly to cheat the time and achieve the look necessary. Here we have our newly finished silver coloured goldwork cuffs.

The whole process centers around a very common kitchen ingredient, eggs.

Once hard boiled and shelled the eggs are sealed in with the embroidery and allowed to sit for a short time.

Here you can see the warmth from the eggs creating steam which carries the sulphur released from them to the goldwork.

This eats away at the finish, giving it an aged, tarnished look, depending on how much you want to exaggerate this will depend on how long you leave it in there for and if you need to smash the eggs to release more.

The above piece is the cuff before the antiquing process and below is after, you can see the difference between the two, now just to do the other one to match!

Hawthorne & Heaney for Joshua Kane

April 21, 2016 by Natasha Searls-Punter

For his SS16 collection, we worked with Joshua Kane to create these lightening inspired detail to compliement the tailoring. We came across this great picture of Jack Guiness in one of the jackets with Ben Stiller, giving their best ‘blue steel’ looks and just had to share it with you!

Here you can see some of the detail of the goldwork that goes unto the collar. The embroidery stands up from the fabric as it has been raised and each piece of bullion is cut to measure and hand applied to create this lux effect.

And here the rest fo the jacket, I think you will agree, it is pretty special.

Hawthorne & Heaney for Cloth Surgeon and Lewis Hamilton

April 15, 2016 by Natasha Searls-Punter

Recently we had a really exciting patch project for Cloth Surgeon who were creating a jacket for Lewis Hamilton. Cloth Surgeon is the brain child of Rav Matharu who takes inspiration from ‘street culture, art and fashion to create a sports luxe tailored aesthetic’. Working with these influences he melds Sportswear with Saville Row style tailoring and has become a long standing favourite designe of many celebrities, in particular Lewis Hamilton. These patches were ordered bespoke for this particular jacket, all of which are hand embroidered in our military goldwork style.

The patches were applied to both the outide of the lux lambskin leather bomber, and the Royal Stewart Wool Tartan Lining. Here is the finished article:

Hawthorne & Heaney meets ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’

January 14, 2015 by Natasha Searls-Punter

This new year brings the release of eagerly anticipated new movie ‘Kingsman: The Secret Service’ starring Colin Farrell, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Kane, Taron Egerton and Mark Strong. By all accounts, it looks to be hilarious, action packed and incredibly stylish (gentlemen out there, take note). Those of you with a super keen eye may have noticed a pair a bit of Hawthorne & Heaney embroidery in the secret accessories/weaponry closet scene (I think we all wish we had one of those!). Expertly made by George Cleverley Shoemakers into a gentlemans slipper our embroidery is going to be a must have accessory for the coming season.

Click here to see the trailer

In cinemas nationwide from the 29th Jan!

Our relationship with Cleverley’s has been strong for a number of years with a wide variety of embroidery provided for their slipper ranges from skull and seahorses to monograms. We also provide bespoke monograms for their clients which are hand drawn in a Script or Gothic style, hand painted and then very carefully had embroidered to their specifications.

The world of the shoe maker is something of an unknown entity with strange rooms full of named wooden moulds, hides and hand powered machines.

The slippers featured in the movie are a limited edition exclusively for Mr Porter. Each pair are black velvet in the Albert style with the ‘K’ of Kingsman in a ring proudly decorating the front in bullion. If you’d like to own a pair you had best get onto Mr Porter before they all go. (insert a link)

detail of the k slippers,

And they are not just for the gentlemen ! Here is the pair that our director, Claire Barrett had made up.

Hawthorne & Heaney does Bespoke Slippers

August 7, 2014 by Natasha Searls-Punter

Many of you may think its way too early to be thinking about Christmas, but in terms of bespoke gifts, it’s not far away. Our good friends over at Cleverley’s have been busy making slippers that are destined to be Christmas gifts for quite some time now, as have we for those slippers that are adorned with embroidery.

Our director, Claire Barrett has had a pair made for herself with our Hawthorne & Heaney logo across the front, embroidered in silks and bullions. I have it on good authority that they are incredibly comfortable and hard wearing as well as being very a highly covetable item. They can be made with your choice of emblem on the front, if you have something specific in mind which we can have made into embroidery as we also offer a drafting service.

Best get your order in if you would like to present your loved one with a pair of these! Pricing on request.