Kits

Ten or so evenings, and a blue pansy in real silk standing on the shelf in its own frame — a complete silk-shading kit in the Su needle-painting method (thread painting, long and short stitch), silk thread on mulberry silk organza. It comes with...

Stitch a cluster of ripe cherries in gleaming silk — and learn a 2,000-year-old art. Endorsed by the Royal School of Needlework, this complete kit guides a beginner through Su silk shading, the tradition often described as “painting with a needle.” You’ll work the...

No hoop. No screw. No re-tensioning. A square embroidery frame with the sheer silk organza already stretched and tensioned inside it, and an oak stand to set it on when you have cut the last thread. Made for silk shading and thread painting. Patent...

Made for a bookmark, not borrowed from a hoop. A 12 cm x 4 cm embroidery blank you can hold in one hand: sheer silk organza edged in silk cord, wrapped by hand stitch by stitch, with a tassel in the pack. No hoop...

Silk shading lives or dies on the thread. These four shades are graded from light to dark, so you can blend a petal or a leaf without hunting for the in-between colour. It is the thread our students ask for after a workshop: glossy,...

This is the kit we teach from in our London workshops: three chrysanthemums on a slender stem, stitched in fine silk on a sheer organza bookmark, petal by petal, and finished with a silk tassel. The printed two-sided guide walks you through each stitch...

Every colour we make, in one box: eight gradient sets of 100% mulberry silk embroidery thread, four shades in each, thirty-two skeins in all. Enough to shade any petal or leaf you are likely to meet, with free UK delivery. Silk shading lives or...