Tag: beading

Hawthorne & Heaney for Charlotte Stockdale’s Met Gala Outfit

beading, beads, bespoke, black, black on black, chaos, Charlotte Stockdale, club, comme des garcons, CS, custom, embellishment, embroidery, gala, hand embroidery, heraldic, heraldry, lettering, logo, machine embroidery, met ball, met gala, Metropolitan Museum of Art, personal, Personalised, rei kawakubo, stitching, texture

The first Monday in May each year is always a prestigious day in the fashion calender as it marks the opening of the Metropolitan Museum’s new exhibition and therefore the Met Gala. This year, the exhibition is dedicated to Comme des Garcon’s Rei Kawakubo and is entitled ‘The Art of In-Between’. Taking its theme for […]

Hawthorne and Heaney: Tambour vs. Ari Beading

beaded embellishing, detailed, couture embroidery,, personalised, stitching, bespoke, custom, London

One question we get asked a lot at H&H is the differences between Tambour and Ari beading, technical differences, the pros and cons of each and which is faster. Both tambour and Ari work off of the same principals of applying beads to fabric using a specialised hook. Using the hook a chain stitch is […]

Hawthorne & Heaney for Jaye Pearce

beading, bespoke, blush, bridal, couture, deco, embroidery, fans, handmade, Hawthorne & Heaney, icory, Jaye Pearce, London, personal, romantic, roses, silver, summer, tambour, vintage

A few months ago we were approached by an interiors consultant called Jaye Pearce for a rather special project, her wedding dress. She had decided she wanted something different and being a creative person, decided that she was going to have a little more of a hand in what her gown would look like than […]

London Fashion and H&H

beading, Claire Barrow, crystals, CSM, embroidery, fashion, future of fashion, goldwork, graduates, Isa Arfen, lace, London, production, Reem Juan, Sibling, students, tassels

Hawthorne & Heaney always watch the emergence of new fashion graduates with great interest and feel its very important to encourage young designers in order to propel fashion forwards.  Over the last week there has been plenty of new talent coming through and this talent has been displaying a range of extremely innovative embroidery.   […]