Stories from the studio — characters, craft and Edinburgh itself.
The invisible first step of every commission: turning a flat sketch into instructions a needle can follow.
Every design is redrawn stitch by stitch before it’s sewn — a process called digitising, where a flat piece of artwork becomes a set of instructions for needle and thread.
Our team checks every proof by eye, then by hand once it’s off the machine, so the version you approve is the version you receive.
How a city built from stone found its way onto cloth — one embroidered line at a time.
Edinburgh is a city of stone — tenements, closes, castle rock — and every character we stitch carries a trace of it, even the ones who never left the studio sketchbook.
This is a note on how a skyline gets simplified down to a handful of stitch directions, and why some lines get left out entirely.
A tailored jacket, a quiet corner of a Leith bar, and a Highland cow who has always belonged there.
Long before the city had a name, the hills above it were his. Now he keeps a stool at the end of the bar, coat brushed, tie straight, watching Leith go by the way he once watched the weather roll in from the Forth.
Embroidered in fine detail across the chest, he’s the first character in a collection built on the same idea: that where you’re from and where you’re going can sit in the same room, comfortably, over a drink.
