Tambour handles are such as great tool, with their turned wood bodies holding the potential to create all manner of beautiful beading. However, what you may not have realised about yours is that if you are only tambouring with your handle, you are not using it to its full potential. As you may have noticed, […]
Embroidery Equipment
Gifting Ideas
Following on from their popularity on release, we are happy to announce that the Goldwork Essentials Personalised Giftsets are back in stock! These giftsets are great for anyone starting off in goldwork embroidery as they come with: The luxury Hen scissors for cutting those tiny threads, complete with a fancy tassle (swish swish) You get […]
Gift Certificates Christmas 2018
Having a crafter in your life can be a great thing, along with all the pretty things they make they’re also great for fixing buttons or darning sock and just generally lending their skills to all sorts. However if it’s not your personal field of interest, trying to purchase crafty gifts for them can be […]
Pro Tips: Open Sided Thimble
A firm favourite with our inhouse embroiderers, this thimble may not look like your standard thimble but it sure does the job. Looking more like a piece of jewellery than a piece of equipment, the open sided thimble has cage back of this thimble allow it to fit snugly over your finger and allow for […]
New additions to the Scissor Family
We always have lots of projects on the go but today we have some new projects to bring to you that we have been working on for a little while behind the scenes. Within the studio’s embroiderers, we have a range of preferences on our scissors so we thought we should be bringing a bigger […]
Pro Tips: Mellor
Mellor, if you have looked at goldwork classes then you have probably come across this word and possibly not really known what it meant. Pronounced ‘Mel-Ore’, the mellor is a laying tool specially designed for us with goldwork to encourage the embroiderer to handle the goldwork as little as possible for fear of damaging it […]