Royal School of Needlework
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Oct 13, 2026
Kate StrasdinGUEST
Yes.
Kate StrasdinGUEST
And it, it's those various processes, because once you've made the velvet, then you have to source the embroidery, and that gets embroidered by any number of incredibly skilled workers in spaces like the Ladies Work Society or the Royal School of Needlework.
Kate StrasdinGUEST
And they, they are commissioned to create the embroideries, but then the whole of it has to be made up into a, a wearable robe by robe makers like Eden Ravenscroft, and there you have a, a, a different skill set to do with the tailoring.
Kate StrasdinGUEST
So yeah, it, it comprises just a whole set of skills and people who often remain nameless.
Aisling WalshGUEST
So I'm down at the [laughs]...
Aisling WalshGUEST
Uh, I took up embroidery at a point, and I'm in Hampton Court Palace at the Royal Needlework School doing my embroidery.
Aisling WalshGUEST
And you're not allowed to have a mobile phone, and it's all very old-fashioned.
Aisling WalshGUEST
Anyway, there was a call that we were gonna have with, uh, the BBC to talk about Glenda, and I found her huddled into a little corner, and the two producers were in the v- you know, at the BBC in, in, in central town.
Carolyn ForsterGUEST
Um, so I introduced it to them in their kit and like, "Look, if the amount of stitching that I'm not giving you already, you know, have a go of this." And the girls that had never done any embroidery were like, "Oh, this is amazing.
Carolyn ForsterGUEST
It's so easy with the squares, um, and the way you can cover in, color in the light ones or the dark ones, and how you've got that interplay of light and dark." And the girls who were very much embroiderers and Royal School of Needlework trained, and been on courses-
Gary ParrHOST
Right.
Gary ParrHOST
Uh-huh
Jamie ChalmersHOST
Mm.
Jamie ChalmersHOST
Although I am gonna say, and this you might need to park this idea for now, but the Royal School of Needlework, shout out to them for a second time, have got-
Prisma AndradeGUEST
Mm-hmm
Jamie ChalmersHOST
... a stitch bank, which I believe has got in excess of 300 different types of stitch in it.
Hannah CadoganGUEST
There's something kind of fantastic about that.
Hannah CadoganGUEST
When the diamonds went in, actually, we borrowed a frame from the Royal School Needlework, which is where I trained, which was very kind of them.
Hannah CadoganGUEST
And I've literally had it for five years.
Hannah CadoganGUEST
This has been an absolute labour of love.
Ailsa HollandGUEST
... which I've just knotted at the back.
Ailsa HollandGUEST
We're not the Royal School of Needlework here.
Eleanor JanegaHOST
[laughs]
Ailsa HollandGUEST
And you take the wool sort of along where you want to be, and just put it in at the next-
Emily WilkinsonHOST
Hannie is an embroidery artist with a background in metal thread embroidery.
Emily WilkinsonHOST
She studied at the Royal School of Needlework and has a deep belief in the importance of innovation and self-expression to ensuring a place for craft in our modern age.
Emily WilkinsonHOST
Supported by 2023 Quest Broiderer's Company Scholarship, Hani is currently exploring straw and grasses to create a sustainable natural gold, questioning the notion of what is precious and contributing to the revival of largely lost straw craft skills.
Emily WilkinsonHOST
She was the winner of the inaugural Quest Sanderson Rising Star Craft Award in 2024.
Hanny NewtonGUEST
And it's not something that really crossed my mind before.
Hanny NewtonGUEST
And it was a real light bulb moment.
Hanny NewtonGUEST
So from then I went and Got a foundation degree because I'd not studied art before and set my sights on the Royal School of Needlework, which still to this day is the only place you could do a degree really in hand embroidery.
Hanny NewtonGUEST
So it was always about the hand embroidery element of it.
Hazel BlomkampGUEST
And at about the time we were both more or less finishing off, I get a WhatsApp or an email from Philippa saying, absolute disaster.
Hazel BlomkampGUEST
Royal School of Needlework have just used the same eagle as was either part of their advertising or is the main picture that goes, image that goes along the top of their Facebook page or whatever.
Hazel BlomkampGUEST
I said, we can't possibly do it.
Hazel BlomkampGUEST
And we went back and forth for a while.
Gail CowleyHOST
That's fantastic.
Diana SpringallGUEST
Yes, the Royal School of Needlework would take it, but I don't think it would stay together as a story.
Diana SpringallGUEST
When I asked them if they would be interested, of course we would, we'd love it, but it will be distributed.
Diana SpringallGUEST
It wouldn't be a story as it now is, where I've written about the artist in book form and so on.