Notable Hands - The Magazine

Hi everyone!

This is the newest version of Notable Hands - the magazine.

You will find long form features from our favorite  designers, trend pages, shopping guides, and editorial shoots. hopefully you'll be inspired by it, and follow the showcased notable crafters that inspired us in the first place.

Enjoy and don't hesitate to comment!

Open publication - Free publishing - More artisans

Notable Hands - Craft - Embroidery

Let's talk about embroidery.

Beading and embroidery are techniques that usually get confused. Embroidery is the art if decorating fabrics and different materials with a needle and thread, or yarn - while Beading is the technique of sewing beads and sequins into fabrics.

Embroidery is a very exciting technique, because while someone can think embroidered fabrics look outdates, many luxury labels also used them to add textures and pattern to their original materials.

Embroidery entails everything from chain stitch, buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, cross-stitch, when it comes to handmade techniques. However, embroidery can also be done by machine, but these pieces are less original and cliché examples.

Artisanal embroidery looks very unique, but once you know the basic technique, you can basically embroider paper, and furniture materials.

Chanel

Missoni

Maiyet - sold at Barney's

The possibilities are endless.

Images via Barney's and Style.com

Our Next Favorite Statement Pieces - Nathalie Costes Collarettes!

Nathalie Costes

I’ve been quite obsessed, if nothing else, with knitwear since I started making knitwear pieces during design school, about three years ago.

Those days are not gone, but I also enjoy looking at knitwear-design behind the scenes for inspiration – the possibilities are countless, and much more modern and unique than those granny sweater we always think of when seeing a crochet hook, and those two long needles.

Crochet and knitwear are both made of a single yarn (any kind of yarn), yet their look and possibilities are completely different.

So, in my search for some unique applications of crochet I happened to find the most charming artist, Nathalie Costes, who makes no other than cotton crochet collars, or what she calls in French, collarettes!

These small and dreamy pieces are an example of a unique, and simple idea turning into something wonderful, and a model of how unconventional pieces can also be very wearable ones! Just take what you love the most about clothes and make it your own! But it doesn’t go as easy as it sounds.

Needless to say, I’m drooling here over Nathalie Costes ultra-femenine collarettes! To me, the rufflier they get, the better! And they will definitely change any simple, and not so simple look, in a second.

Check her site/e-shop out after you read what this lovely French designer has to say! 

1.  Nathalie, can you tell me a bit about yourself?
I’m just a simple woman, mother of three children, two girls and a boy – ages 20, 19 and 17.  I’m looking for a simple life, trying to worry less and giggle more. 

2.  Where are you based?

I left Paris 4 years ago after stopping my wooden necklaces business. I’m living in the Southwest of France, not far from the sea, not far from Spain, and not far from the mountains in a small town calling PAU. I like to go to Paris for small journeys and I’m always happy to come back to the country.

Workshop

Nathalie wearing her design

3.  How long have you worked in fashion- designing such beautiful accessories?

I started to design fashion accessory in 2003, with my lacquered wooden necklaces. I wasn’t conscious that they would be such a success. After four years, I decided to stop as I felt like a prisoner with all those beads. The production wasn’t easy.


4.  How would you define your style, or the girl that you design for?

I don’t really know how to define my style. I think it’s simple, elegant, and joyful. I don’t think particularly about a girl to design for. What I love is when different kind of people can wear what I design. I like it when different girls wear the same accessory in their own style.