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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!

Hawthorne & Heaney to the Rescue! London Hand Embroidery

Hawthorne & Heaney to the Rescue! London Hand Embroidery

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

Hawthorne & Heaney to the Rescue! London Hand Embroidery

Hawthorne & Heaney to the Rescue! London Hand Embroidery

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.

Hawthorne & Heaney to the Rescue! London Hand Embroidery

One Bird just want enough!

Hawthorne & Heaney to the Rescue! London Hand Embroidery

Let us know your thoughts! 

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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.

Hawthorne & Heaney on Aging Goldwork London Hand Embroidery

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

Hawthorne & Heaney on Aging Goldwork London Hand Embroidery

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

Hawthorne & Heaney on Aging Goldwork London Hand Embroidery

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

Hawthorne & Heaney on Aging Goldwork London Hand Embroidery

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.  Hawthorne & Heaney on Aging Goldwork London Hand Embroidery

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 on Aging Goldwork London Hand Embroidery

Filed Under: Embroidery Tagged With: aging, antiquing, bullion, cheat, eggs, goldwork, Hawthorne & Heaney, metal, processes, silver, tip

Hawthorne & Heaney for ‘High Speed Dirt’

December 11, 2015 by Natasha Searls-Punter

A short while ago we worked on a small prioject for the Dutch Metal band called ‘High Speed Dirt’ who were having their reunion so we produced a set of trucker caps for them as a small memento of the occasion. Hawthorne & Heaney for 'High Speed Dirt' London Hand Embroidery

The project was a bit of an unusual one for us as we don’t often work on items like this but we embroidered them with the bands logo across the front.Hawthorne & Heaney for 'High Speed Dirt' London Hand Embroidery

If you don’t know about them, here is a little about the band: ‘High Speed Dirt’ stands for hard rock, where the old rock ‘n roll traditions meet modern day’s musical influences. Hardrock, heavy metal and pure rock ‘n roll are the key influences (think old Vengeance, Black Label Society, Ugly Kid Joe, Motley Crue).They were founded in 2004 and toured the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany until 2012 where they supported Supported legendary Dutch rock band Peter Pan Speedrock – furthermore played with US bands Kleveland and Beatallica, New Zealand’s Grande Cobra and Belgium rockers El Guapo Stuntteam. In this time they launched three EPs

o   Carnival of Animals (2004)

o   King Diesel (2007)

o   Tomorrow (2009)

Furthermore, featured on multiple collective records and are just starting to explore the modelling profession…;)

Hawthorne & Heaney for 'High Speed Dirt' London Hand Embroidery

This one might take a bit of growing into.Hawthorne & Heaney for 'High Speed Dirt' London Hand Embroidery

Filed Under: Embroidery, London, Music Tagged With: band, embrodiery, hats, Hawthorne and Heaney, high speed dirt, logo, metal, music, puff, raising, reunion, truckers

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