Every year, Hand & Lock organizes a competition for the prestigious Prize for Embroidery to promote the use of hand embroidery in fashion and to discover emerging embroidery talent. The 2015...
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The Funk Files: Embroidery Frontiers – Meet Ailish Henderson
Meet Ailish Henderson Name: Ailish Henderson Location: North East England Are you in school now? If so, where? I am currently teaching Textiles and Fine Art, while studying for my BA in...
Amy Meissner, ArtistPhoto by Brian Adams. Name: Amy Meissner Location: Anchorage, Alaska, USA You are a textile artist. But you weren’t always a textile artist. Career-wise, what were you...
Gemma Lucas Name: Gemma Lucas Location: South West London/Surrey School: Royal School of Needlework What was your first exposure to embroidery, and what did you think of it? Period...
Jenna Lagonigro Name: Jenna Lagonigro Location: Raleigh, NC School: NC State University College of Design (Recent graduate, so anyone with job opportunities hit me up!) What was your...
Have you ever walked up to a painting in a museum, a quilt in an exhibit, or a relief on a building, and thought: "Wow, how did they do that?" I responded that way when I saw needlepoint designer Gay...
