Set up by Royal College of Art graduate Andrew Kenny, The London Embroidery Studio has been creating bespoke embroidery from its East London base since 2007. The Studio delivers complex technical hand and machine embroidery production, offering consultation assistance in developing and specifying designs. The team’s embroidery know-how is used by leading international fashion and textile designers, with recent clients including Christian Dior,Louis Vuitton, ACNE Studios, Bobby Abley, Edward Crutchley & Victoria Beckham. They have also helped to create bespoke embroidery solutions for fine artists such as Hew Locke and Kirsty Macleod. Since 2014, the studio has also opened up its professional space to the public by launching evening and weekend design-led embroidery classes. The Studio is led by design practitioners with a wealth of fashion industry experience. Their cohort of freelance embroidery consultants, class tutors and core studio team each balance their own embroidery-led design practices with studio work. Being a research-led enterprise allows the studio to remain at the forefront of embroidery innovation and informs its offer of the broadest range of skills and creative approaches to its clients and students. Unlike traditional CAD embroidery machines, the studio’s brand new TAJIMA machines can mix regular lock-stitch embroidery with digital chain and moss Cornely, cording, ribboning and sequinning. Unique to the UK, these machines allow them to produce large-scale, complex work quickly and cost effectively. Their continued investment in technology enables the London Embroidery Studio to remain one of the few companies still producing embroidery for fashion solely within the UK.
