Welcome to Goldworx! Today we are finishing our brief history of Goldwork, if you missed Part One catch it here. We left off with Henry VIII and his split from the church resulting in a huge number of embroidered vestments being destroyed. Goldwork continued its popularity throughout Queen Elizabeth I’s reign.…
Fashion Week Spring Summer 2014 – Embroidery Report
I was going to give you all a little over view today of my favourite bits from the various fashion weeks so far, but there is just too much to squeeze in ! The last couple of weeks have been madness with emergencies for paris and we have just surfaced…
Sequintial Art – Gold Cut Work
I may be a little late with this one as we have had a season since Dolce & Gabbana’s incredible AW12 collection below. But I thought I would run through a little break down of gold ‘cutwork’ as we know it here in the Hawthorne & Heaney studio. Before I…