Hand and Lock Embroidery

The Hand & Lock International Hand embroidery Prize 2007

At the end of a day-long Symposium on November 5, 2007

that was hosted and sponsored by the Powerhouse Museum Sydney, Israeli student Tatiatna Pogrebnyak was formally presented the £5,000 first prize in this prestigious international award which commenced in 2005. A student at the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Israel (their top school for fashion design), she was one of the 300 entrants from 15 different countries, and was flown to Sydney from Israel to attend the champagne reception prize giving, held in conjuction with the Hand & Lock ‘Embroidering … the Future’ Conference and Exhibition.

Detail of work by Alice Richardson of Falmouth College of Art.

Born in the Ukraine in 1984, Tatiana moved to Israel with her family at the age of 14, already knowing that she loved to put fabrics together and to sew. She feels that ?Israel has shaped her unique style, which she has pursued since high school. Tatiana has also won the Triumph International Fashion Award 2006 for lingerie, in Vienna.

Detail of work by Renee Lindell of Central St Martins College of Art and Design (Commendation)

The judges came from the competition sponsors: The London College of Fashion; The Royal School of Needlework; The Victoria & Albert Museum; the Embroiderers’ Guild ‘Embroidery’ magazine; Madeira Threads UK, and the Hand & Lock Embroidery company which was created in 2001 with the fusion of two, extraordinary, long established hand embroidery businesses – M. Hand & Co Ltd (1767) and S. Lock Ltd. (1898). Today they offer a full range of hand and machine embroidery techniques, supplying bespoke embroidery to a diverse range of clients.

Detail of Third runner-up Amy Nightingale of Nottingham Trent University.

The Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery aims to encourage all students of embroidery, fashion and textiles, and to ensure the future of hand embroidery and its design within a contemporary context. Today it is considered to be the most prestigious Embroidery Prize of its kind. The substantial first prize will be increased to £7 ,500 in 2008, and also provides the opportunity to do work experience, courses and tours with Hand & Lock, and the competition sponsors.

1st Prize winner Tatiana Porgrebnyak’s work: details of her quilted jacket, and encrusted stitching.

Entries for the next Award are due at the end of Marc, 2008. Details from Hand & Lock 86 Margaret Street London W1W 8TE www.handembroidery.com

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