Take the first step to starting your new hobby in 2025 and join the RSN’s Certificate & Diploma in Technical Hand Embroidery course.

The RSN’s Certificate & Diploma (C&D) offers you a unique experience of learning hand embroidery to a high technical standard, wherever and whenever suits you.

The C&D course is taught both Onsite at various venues across the world, at Hampton Court Palace in South West London, Bristol, Rugby, Durham, Glasgow, Australia, the USA and Japan, as well as Online via Zoom, attended by both international and UK based students.

The course contains a wonderful variety of techniques and can be booked on a class-by-class basis to fit in with your schedule. It is therefore perfect for those who want to start a new hobby but need to find one that they can fit around their busy schedules – it really is the most flexible course.

Want to hear just how flexible the course is from one of our students?

Here is Tamsyn Thorpe who attends RSN Bristol:

“I first started hand embroidery as a child during school holidays as both my grandparents and my mum embroidered. My first ever stitches were done using old DMC threads on pieces of old brushed cotton sheet.

I found the RSN whilst looking online for more specialist embroidery training, as I had not long had my first child and needed something for me.

I started on the C&D course when the Bristol venue was first formed. I initially had a choice of Hampton Court Palace or Durham, but living in the Midlands, neither were a short drive away. However, Bristol worked for me because although it was a similar distance to the others, my parents live in Cornwall, and it was en route!

The teaching has been fantastic, learning lots of new skills to such a high level. I have made long term friends and have enjoyed meeting like-minded people. I also enjoy volunteering at The Knitting & Stitching shows and telling others about the RSN and sometimes having my work on display.

Everybody does courses for different reasons but, when I started, I needed something for me that I could do as a hobby around caring for my autistic son. This gave me my place of calm to escape to. For me, stitching is a journey not a race, I am not a fast stitcher and I do love detail. Completing my pieces, for me in amongst life’s challenges, gives me a great sense of achievement.”

Inspired by Tamsyn’s words?

Why not join our next C&D Online info session to find out more about the course, and to ask any questions.