Hand and Lock Embroidery

A Jazzy fashion week!!

This year again, Hand & Lock hits the Catwalks during London Fashion Week Automn/Winter 09/10

The womenswear label Luella, have always been a long standing client of Hand & Lock’s Military Dept, whether it be to buy gold lace, military braid or accoutrements. But, for their A/W 09 collection, it seemed that Luella wanted to use elements of military in a more feminine way. They approached Hand & Lock with a few basic floral designs that they wanted interpreting into hand embroidered brooches.

After discussing ideas with the Studio Manager Sana Uddin, they together decided that the 2 floral designs could be brought to life when playing around with the surface, shape and colour. With these three factors in mind, Hand & Lock embroidered antique gold wire raised above several layers of silk threads, varying in areas of thickness, onto a rich teal coloured dupion silk for the base of the brooch. These magical hand embroidered brooches were then neatly outlined and finished with a single line of antique gold pearl purl. The brooches looked beautiful yet remained to have a hard edge from the hand embroidered gold wire, which was seen throughout this seasons Luella show.

Sana Uddin
Studio Manager