Royal School of Needlework
Welcome to the Royal School of Needlework To teach, practise and promote the art of hand embroidery
RSN Galleries
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Bespoke canvas kit
We've produced this bespoke canvas kit for a customer who has selected a design based on the Jacobean tree of life. We've handpainted the design onto canvas with oil paints and selected Appletons wools t...
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Table banner
Our Studio has recently worked a customer's table banner which is to be used at formal dinners. The completed appliqued embroidery measures 18.5cm x 15cm. ...
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Salisbury Cathedral Te Deum Altar frontal
The Te Deum frontal was made by a local Salisbury lady, (Jane Morris Weigall), and her daughter (Mrs Aldworth) at the end of the 19th century to a design by the architect Sidney G Parry. At 12' long it is a specta...
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The Chapel Royal, St James's Palace: Jacobean frontal
This simple but beautiful frontal - called Jacobean because the cloth drapes over the altar on all four sides - has suffered from wear and the silk damask had split on the folds. The embroidery was otherwise in ...
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The Chapel Royal, St James's Palace
With Her Majesty The Queen as our Patron, we are delighted to be working on two altar frontals for the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace. The green frontal and super frontal were originally worked in 1889 by...
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Bespoke chair seat
The Brief: To create a design for a new chair seat cover, based on an existing design. The seat cover is to be worked in crewel wool on canvas, so we marked the design straight onto the canvas and selec...
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RSN Studio New commissions
The Royal School of Needlework is staffed by highly-skilled professional embroiderers, all graduates of the RSN. All our commissions are one-off pieces of work and hand-embroidered here in the UK. Here are ...
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Salisbury Cathedral vestments: Restoration of the embroidered motifs on the Carpenter Cope
Two of the Tudor Rose motifs from the shoulder area of the Carpenter Cope were damaged. The silk floss had become worn and the gold threads were unravelling and lifting. The roses had been applied to the c...
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Transferred embroidery for a church banner
An example of how we conserved a banner for St Mary's Church Sanderstead by transferring the embroidery onto new background fabric then re-making the banner. ...
