New Arrivals

Twelve months of exquisite embroidery from the RSN Collection. The Royal School of Needlework Calendar 2026 brings a masterwork of hand embroidery to every month, each with a caption from the RSN Collection — a year of inspiration for anyone who loves the needle....

A card that outlives the occasion. A folding greeting card with a hand-embroidered silk cover in auspicious designs — kept long after the words are read. Add our calligraphy service inside for a message written by hand. Made in our studio and supervised by...

A token for readers and scholars. Hand-embroidered silk with a tassel finish, in your choice of zodiac, poetry or floral motifs — a small, meaningful marker of place and of thought. Tuck it into a novel, a journal or a greeting card. A gift...

A blessing you carry — hidden in the lining. Golden-thread zodiac motifs are hand-embroidered across pure silk, while inside, the lining is printed with auspicious blessings: a private wish tucked against your evening essentials. Made in our studio and supervised by master embroiderer Joni...

The clouds of Dunhuang, floating in sheer silk. Cloud and floral motifs drawn from the Dunhuang murals are embroidered across a whisper-light 70 × 200 cm wrap — an ethereal layer for evening wear, ceremony or travel. Softly draped in spring neutrals, it moves...

Kyoto brocade, made to be worn. Nishijin-ori — the centuries-old brocade of Kyoto’s Nishijin weaving district — here in a festive bird-and-floral design that catches the light. A refined companion for banquets and receptions. Crafted in our studio, supervised by master embroiderer Joni Zhou....

Kyoto brocade in black and gold. Nishijin-ori — the storied brocade of Kyoto’s Nishijin weaving district — in a dramatic black-and-gold bird-and-floral design. Evening polish with real heritage behind it. Crafted in our studio, supervised by master embroiderer Joni Zhou. A light structure, secure...

A rhododendron in bloom — the blossom of prosperity. Conveying flourishing good fortune, the motif is embroidered on an ultramarine-blue mulberry-silk square made for everyday elegance. Style it on the neck, in the hair, at the wrist or on a bag handle. 100% mulberry...

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...

“There’s magic in the web of it.” — Othello, Act 3, Scene 4 A line of Shakespeare, sewn in silk. Othello’s weaver’s word for enchantment is hand-embroidered in gold thread on a navy pure-silk scarf/pocket square, in a technique refined over two thousand years....

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...

A walnut jewellery box whose lid holds a hand-embroidered silk panel — two magpies among plum blossom, stitched in split silk with lifelike shading. In Chinese tradition, magpies with blossom mean joy arriving. Open the lid each morning and that is the first thing...

An illuminated hand-embroidered artwork — a street lamp stitched on fine gauze, framed in wood, that lights from within. Switch it on and the lamp in the picture becomes the lamp that lights the room. The stitched glow warms, the words "Good Night" surface...

Wedding on Saturday. The dress is sorted; the fascinator isn't quite doing it. This is the piece that does. A spray of ivory silk Four Season Orchids on a long stick pin — in the hair, on a lapel, on a hat band —...

A soft dusty-blue square scarf in pure mulberry silk, with a navy butterfly and one small bloom hand-embroidered at the corner. This is the gentler sister of our navy scarf — a powdery blue that reads as vintage silver-blue in low light, with the...

The Odyssey bookmark: Bound to the Mast. Homer's epic on a translucent silk organza bookmark, printed with Waterhouse, Ulysses and the Sirens, 1891, framed in silk-wrapped cord. A gift for the reader, the classics student, the teacher, or anyone swept up in the story...

The Odyssey bookmark: Circe's Cup. Homer's epic on a translucent silk organza bookmark, printed with Waterhouse, Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses, 1891, framed in silk-wrapped cord. A gift for the reader, the classics student, the teacher, or anyone swept up in the story...

The Odyssey bookmark: The Poisoner of the Sea. Homer's epic on a translucent silk organza bookmark, printed with Waterhouse, Circe Invidiosa, 1892, framed in silk-wrapped cord. A gift for the reader, the classics student, the teacher, or anyone swept up in the story on...