Celebrating RSN Successes at the Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery 2025! ⁠

7th November, 2025

After a wonderful evening celebrating embroidery from around the world at the Hand and Lock Prize for Embroidery, we are thrilled to announce the incredible achievements of our RSN winners and finalists!⁠

🎓 Student Fashion Category

  • 1st Place: RSN Degree Graduate Charlotte Farrant
  • 2nd Place: RSN Degree Graduate Madelaine Rose Walker
  • 3rd Place: RSN Degree Graduate Clara Donald

🧵 Student Textile Art Category

  •  1st Place: RSN Degree Graduate Severina Seidl
  • 2nd Place: RSN Tutor Lucy May

🏆 Associate Awards

  • RSN Award for Innovation & Technical Excellence in Hand Embroidery: Kai Otsuki
  • Worshipful Company of Broderers Award: RSN Tutor Eve Commander —
  • Worshipful Company of Gold & Silver Wyre Drawers Award:

– Runner-up: RSN Tutor Lucy May

– Winner: RSN Professional Embroidery Tutor Student Cher Liu

  • Embroiderers’ Guild & Embroidery Magazine Award for Design & Innovation:

RSN Degree Graduate Madelaine Rose Walker

 

👏 RSN Finalists

  • RSN Tutor Kate Pankhurst
  • RSN Degree Graduate Ruta Malik
  • RSN Degree Graduate Edith Miller
  • RSN Degree Graduate Philippa Palmer


A huge congratulations to all of this year’s talented winners and finalists!