Property News · September 25, 2016

Life’s rich tapestry


Embroidery queen Laura Lees moved from fashion to furniture. She tells Alice Fisher what inspires herLaura Lees’ career started with a schoolgirl error. “I didn’t read my college prospectus properly so I applied for constructed textiles thinking it would be sculpture or something – it was actually knitting, weaving and tapestry.” Luckily the course at Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design worked out. “Turns out tapestry and embroidery are my thing. The needle is my pen and it lets me tell my stories.”After college, she moved from her home town of Corstorphine to London in 1997 and ended up working behind the bar at the Bricklayer’s Arms in Hoxton. Back then it was the local for fashion folk such as Giles Deacon and Katie Grand. After she embroidered a shirt for Deacon to show him what she could do, her notoriety spread among London’s young designers. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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