Hand & Lock

Hand & Lock
Industry
  • Fashion
  • Embroidery
Founded 2001; merger of M Hand & Company Ltd and S Lock
Headquarters London,
England
Key people
 Alastair Macleod (Chairman)
Jessica Jane Pile (Director)
Services 020 7580 7488
Website handembroidery.com
Goldwork embroidery letters on display in the 'beadroom'

Hand & Lock is an embroidery brand in the United Kingdom[1] created from the merger of M Hand & Company and S Lock in 2001, and is based in Fitzrovia, London.

History

M Hand & Company Ltd was founded in London in 1767.[2] Hand was a Huguenot refugee who was skilled in working with gold lace, and had studied under Italian craftsmen.[3]

In 1898, C E Phipps began creating embroidered fashion items and selling them to department stores. Phipps retired in 1956 and sold the company to Stanley Lock. The newly named S Lock Company expanded to create special order embroidery items for fashion houses, including Christian Dior, Norman Hartnell, Hardy Amies and Catherine Walker[3][4] The company has created embroidered gowns for Queen Elizabeth and Diana, Princess of Wales.[5] In 1972 it was awarded a Royal Warrant.

In 2001 M Hand & Company and S. Lock merged to form the firm Hand & Lock, and continued to design and manufacture specialty embroidered fashion items.[6]

In 2012 they embroidered the banners for the royal barge for Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee celebrations[7]

In 2014 Hand & Lock were commissioned to do the embroidery on Mary Katrantzou's Autumn/Winter 2014 collection[8]

In 2015 the company contributed images to a replica of the Wikipedia article about the Magna Carta as part of a community art project designed by Cornelia Parker.[9][10]

Hand & Lock sponsored the Victoria & Albert Museum's Opus Anglicanum Show in late 2016[11]

Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery

The Hand & Lock prize for embroidery, originally called the M Hand prize for embroidery was created in 2000.[12] The competition occurs yearly and has two main categories, each of which has a top prize of $5000. The student category is open to people in part or full time education, and the open category is open to everyone. In addition, the Wilcom Institutional Prize awards £6000 of embroidery software and training to the university of the winning student.

References

  1. ↑ "Embroidery enjoys a fashion renaissance". Financial Times, June 19, 2015, Grace Cook
  2. ↑ "Hand & Lock: the finer details". The Telegraph. Tilly Macalister-Smith, April 13, 2015
  3. 1 2 Embroidering the Future, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
  4. ↑ "Have it your way: the best customisable fashion". The Telegraph.
  5. ↑ Olivia Von Halle Hand & Lock Collaboration, vogue
  6. ↑ "Made-to-measure services for gentlemen - on spot and online". Be Global Fashion Network By +Veselka Petrova Published: 18/03/2015
  7. ↑ Diamond Jubilee: Royal Banners Revealed,LBC
  8. ↑ Behind the Seams, W Magazine
  9. ↑ "Modern Magna Carta is created with the help of a Whittlesey artist". Wisbech Standard. 19 August 2015. Kath Sansom.
  10. ↑ "A stitch in time: Cornelia Parker's Magna Carta (An Embroidery) on display at the British Library". Wallpaper. 9 Jun 2015 / By David Paw
  11. ↑ "V&A · Opus Anglicanum: Masterpieces of English Medieval Embroidery". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 2016-11-07.
  12. ↑ Textile Graduate Awarded Hand & Lock Prize, Falmouth University

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