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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!