Hawthorne & Heaney on Bespoke Tablescapes

embroidered napkin, machine embroidery, lettering embroidery,

With a new home comes fresh ideas, we created this table linen set especially for the owners new house designing the monogram based on the house’s name. Though the design itself is quite simple, the raised tonal stitching gives the napkins an understated impact, which is taken a step further in the table cloth with […]

Hawthorne & Heaney Visits Tutankhamun at the Saatchi

Egyptian, gold, exhibition, gallery, installation piece,

The Saatchi Gallery is currently home to the artefacts of Ancient Egypt as they play host to the travelling exhibition ‘Tutankhamum: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh‘. We went to visit while the opportunity presents’s itself and because who doesn’t love gold on gold, on gold?!   The exhibition features over 150 artefacts from Tutankhamum’s tomb, […]

Hawthorne & Heaney visits Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk

japanese, japan, embroidery, Japanese clothing, exhibition, fashion, gallery, couture,

As a member of the V&A, I try to visit most of the temporary exhibitions they put on in the fine institution that is the Victoria and Albert Museum. At the start of March, they opened their doors on their newest addition ‘Kimono:Kyoto to Catwalk‘.  Held in North Court of the building, this exhibition brings […]

Hawthorne & Heaney for Luke Edward Hall

textiles, stitching, embroidery, graduate, embroidered textile outcome, machine embroidery

Hands up, who wants to live in a space like this?Luke Edward Hall If you are anything like us then you haven’t got enough hands to express that completely. This shot is from the cottage of Luke Edward Hall, artist and designer who curated this space in his destinctive style.  Hall graduated from Central Saint […]

Hawthorne & Heaney in Collaboration with James Burke

laces, textiles, 5 stars, adidas, fabric manipulation, machine embroidery

Over the last couple of weeks we have been working on a special project with visual artist and founder of Acrylicize, James Burke. Working with his multidisiplinary style he was creating a new piece in preparation for the ‘Superstar Showcase’. Burke’s work examines the relationship between us and the digital world, drawing upon our need […]

Hawthorne & Heaney visits McQueen’s Old Bond Street Show Space

Alexander Mcqueen, atelier, couture, design, embroidery, exhibition, fashion,

London is very lucky to be able to offer a wealth of great free exhibitions and museums on many subjects. This open to all attitude really helps to keep feeding the minds of our designers and innovaters that one can go out and have your eyes opened to all sorts of  information. One such jem […]

Hawthorne & Heaney for Watts and Co.

art, bullion work, church, cope, ecclesiastical, ceremonial, Embroidery, London fringing, goldwork, keys, metal work, navy, watts and co, yellow

  Just a short one today, but we really wanted to share this stunning ‘three keys’ cope design we produced for Watts and Co last year. The combination of colours really pops, makes us think that yellow is a bit under used when it looks this good on mass. The keys themselves are all bullion […]