Hello everybody! This week we’re going to be looking at the history of redwork embroidery. What does that mean? If you Google the term “redwork embroidery”, the top searches that pop up seem to contain the same information, nearly verbatim. It reads something like “Redwork originated in Europe in the late 1800’s and…
The Funk Files: Meet Ami Waring
Every year, Hand & Lock organizes a competition for the prestigious Prize for Embroidery to promote the use of hand embroidery and to discover emerging embroidery talent. The 2017 brief invited entrants to ‘celebrate, let go, to let loose and indulge in childlike freedom, to celebrate history, global culture, sense…
The Funk Files: Embroidery Frontiers – Meet Paloma Alarcon
Every year, Hand & Lock organizes a competition for the prestigious Prize for Embroidery to promote the use of hand embroidery and to discover emerging embroidery talent. The 2017 brief invited entrants to ‘celebrate, let go, to let loose and indulge in childlike freedom, to celebrate history, global culture, sense…