Textured Hand Guided Machine Embroidery
Embroidery has long been celebrated as a beautiful and intricate craft, capturing the imagination with its delicate threads and exquisite designs. Hand guided machine embroidery blends the precision of machine stitching with the spontaneity of artistic expression. Free hand machine embroidery is a technique that allows artists to create dynamic and expressive designs using […]
Hawthorne & Heaney for Amelia Vance
At Hawthorne & Heaney we often have the pleasure of working with textile design students on their final year projects. Amelia Vance, budding textile designer and a previous intern for Hawthorne & Heaney got in touch with us during November 2022 about some embroidery she needed our expertise for. Having worked with Amelia before […]
Bepsoke Silkwork Typography Art
This Spring, Hawthorne & Heaney launched a collection of military inspired typography art, specially designed for an exhibition held in Fortnum & Mason over the summer of 2022. Designed, drafted & produced in our London studio, you can select any letter of your choice to be woven with military heritage inspired florals and embroidered onto […]
Fashioning Masculinities: The Art of Menswear, at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Masculine fashion, what does it look like to you? Menswear has evolved and changed over the years as society has developed along with international influence and the greater understanding of what masculinity means to us as individuals and designers. The Victoria and Albert Museum has masterfully curated this exhibition which guides you from the early […]
Drawn & Formed Exhibition
The Goldsmith’s Centre’s Drawn + Formed exhibition; in partnership with the Worshipful Company of Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers This exhibition explores the history and contemporary uses of hand-drawn wire in embroidery, jewellery and silversmithing. London was first introduced to gold and silver wire drawing by craftsmen from Europe around the 15th century, however, there […]
Hawthorne & Heaney Visits ‘Thierry Mugler: Couturissme’
This exhibition ‘Thierry Mugler : Couturissime’ is on at the Musée des arts Decoratifs, Paris. A wonderful exhibition to go and see should you be in Paris. The exhibition focuses around the work and life of Thierry Mugler (1948-2022). Known for his avant-garde techniques and use of interesting materials like faux fur, vinyl, latex, […]
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child at the Hayward Gallery
The Louise Bourgeois: The woven child was certainly an exhibition that made you stop and really consider the thought process of each piece, what emotion and psychological motive she was trying to portray to the viewer. With her use of materials ranging from steel to bone to gold and lingerie, each surface represents a memory […]
Hawthorne & Heaney visits Peru: A Journey in Time
Independent, isolated yet highly developed. The Andean people challenge contemporary ideas of what makes a successful society, yet their civilisation began 3,500years ago (900 to 200 BC). The British Museum’s exhibition ‘Peru: a journey in time’ intrinsically integrates the different Andean communities in chronological order yet still allowing for an organic integration of life, […]