You will design and create your piece of hand-embroidered art. Ruth will bring images and examples of her work for you to use as inspiration and guide you through the process of creating your unique embroidery.
DurationYou will design and create your piece of hand-embroidered art. Ruth will bring images and examples of her work for you to use as inspiration and guide you through the process of creating your unique embroidery.
Ruth will demonstrate the stitches and techniques she uses to create texture and depth in her work, as well as help you arrange the composition and choose color palettes.
This class will introduce you to a free-flowing, experimental way of embroidering, exploring how simple stitches can create exciting and effective results.
There will be a wide variety of fabric, threads, and yarns available for you to use, as well as ribbons and beads.
About The Artist
Embroidery artist Ruth Hughes creates modern abstract hand embroideries. She focuses on bold shapes, 3D textures, and exciting color combinations. She has developed her unique abstract style that began with a background in fine art and textiles.
Ruth draws inspiration from patterns found in nature, plants, and landscapes. The contrast of botanical elements and manmade materials is her constant inspiration. Ruth loves to explore sharp lines against soft shapes and translates this into her abstract work.
Following a free-flowing approach to design, each piece she creates develops naturally, guided by the fabric and materials she uses. Her work grows organically as she builds texture, depth, and shape, allowing the threads to dictate the design with each stitch.
Hand & Lock are London’s premier embroidery house providing embellishment services to the Royal Family, top European design houses, the Royal Armed Forces, Savile Row and members of the public. In our central London atelier we offer a range of services from hand monograms and bridal customisation to goldwork blazer badges and machine embroidered logos.
Every commission we undertake receives the highest care and attention from our team of dedicated embroidery designers and expert embroiderers. Whether you are a top Italian designer or a new parent looking to monogram your daughter’s christening outfit the process the process is exactly the same.
You meet with a designer and discuss what you want and receive advice on what will be the best embroidery for you at the best price. If required our designer will create an artwork for you to approve before our embroiderers begin work.
We offer an in house service where the embroidery work is completed in our London studio or an out of house service where our London based designers work closely with embroiderers working in Varanasi, India.
Having the work produced overseas can help be more cost effective on larger scale projects although we require a longer lead time to produce the work and ship it to and from India,
Hand & Lock are committed to sharing our embroidery know how and inspiring the next generation of embroiderers. Since 2001 we have promoted a programme of embroidery education and advancement by creating the annual international embroidery competition.
The Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery’ and also establishing the ‘Hand & Lock School for Embroidery’ which now operates workshops and classes around the world. Whether you are interested in our embellishment services or learning the art of embroidery Hand & Lock here to help
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