Kate Cross
Kate is an accomplished hand-embroider, artist and teacher who found embroidery at the age of 7. After completing an art degree, she trained on the Apprenticeship...
Heather Lewis
Heather’s passion for embroidery began at a very young age; training at a fashion house in Yorkshire before graduating from the RSN Apprenticeship. Heather...
Emi Nimura
After graduating from the International Christian University and Otsuka Textile Design College in Japan, Emi worked as a professional beaded jewellery artist and...
Kelley Aldridge
Kelley graduated from the RSN in 2005, and has been growing a successful business in teaching, producing kits and working private commissions mainly in the Bristol...
Donatella Ciotti
Donatella Ciotti lives in Pavia, Italy, where she owns a crafts store. She teaches courses on Styrofoam, beadwork, silk ribbon, and flower compositions made with...
Annemieke Mein
Annemieke Mein lives in Australia. She was born in Haarlem, Holland, in 1944. Annemieke has become internationally recognized as an artist and craftswoman. She was...
Jane E. Hall
Jane E Hall studied at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art and Design, achieving a Diploma in Foundation Studies, and then moved on to Loughborough College of...
Gilda Baron
Gilda Baron trained at the London College of Fashion and spent some time working in the fashion industry as a pattern cutter and designer. She went on to lecture...
Elizabeth Keegan
Captivated from the first time she saw an embroidery machine at work some fifteen years ago, Elizabeth Keegan's passion for machine embroidery has not diminished,...
Kazuko Aoki
Kazuko Aoki is a popular Japanese embroidery artist who draws inspiration from her garden and the wildlife that frequently visits there. After attending art school...
Chloe Giordano
Chloe began to sew in the last year of her Illustration degree at the University of the West of England, and since graduating in 2011 she has continued to experiment...
Jamie Chalmers
Jamie Chalmers took up cross stitching fifteen years ago and he’s never looked back. Since establishing the Mr X Stitch website in 2008, he has been showcasing...
Kate Haxell
Kate Haxell is an experienced craft editor and author. She has written a wide range of craft books including Fabric Flowers, Super-Cute Pincushions and Sewlicious. Kate lives...
Pat Trott
Pat Trott was introduced to Armenian needlelace by her mother at a very early age, and this led to her passion for embroidery and stitchery of all kinds. Later,...
Irem Yazici
Irem Yazici is a hand embroiderer and designer, and the ownerr of the Baobap shop on Etsy. Irem loves to stitch tiny things and has gathered a worldwide following...
Michele Carragher
Michele Carragher studied Fashion Design and worked in textile conservation, repairing and restoring historical textiles. She then moved into costume embroidery...
Julia D. Gray
Julia D. Gray's passion for traditional Japanese embroidery was kindled by her interest in Art Nouveau (which was influenced by Japanese design) and further fuelled...
Sally McCollin
Sally McCollin has been a part of the textile industry for over 20 years, working extensively with a variety of crafts-based magazines and websites dedicated to...
Trish Burr
Trish Burr is a self-taught and renowned embroiderer. Through research and practice she has developed this individual technique of surface embroidery. She is the...
Jayne Schofield
Jayne Schofield's mother was a seamstress and her grandmother owned a wool shop, so she grew up surrounded by needlecraft projects. She learned to...
Jennifer Williams
Jennifer Williams trained as a domestic science (home economics) teacher but her interest in textile crafts started when she was only six years old. Her tatting...
Ayako Otsuka
Embroidery designer Ayako Otsuka is the director of Embroidery Studio Ecru and a member of the Japan Association of Linen Spinners. She has been immersed in the...
Victoria Matthewson
Victoria Matthewson is a hand embroidery artist specializing in needlepainting, also known as silk shading or long and short stitch embroidery. Combining her...