Hello!

We are a multidisciplinary creative studio business in the North-East (UK), founded by embroidery artist Melanie Kyles. With creativity, playfulness, and hands-on craftsmanship at the heart of our brand, we offer skilled and accessible workshops in inspiring settings, carefully curated kits to get you started or level up on your creative journey, and beautiful hand-crafted gifts, expertly made in our Gateshead-based studio with Orbis Community using sustainably sourced, high-quality materials…what’s not to love!

 Meet Melanie

Some of you may have already met me from ‘Melanie Kyles’ or ‘The Fashion Lab’ but for those of you I’ve not met yet, hello and thank you for joining us!

A little about me, I’m a contemporary embroidery specialist and love all things tactile and sparkly, hence the reason I fell in love with embroidery and embellishment. I’m trained in freehand, goldwork, tambour and Irish machine embroidery, and I’m also equally as passionate about sustainability within art and textiles, which informs my practice at every stage.

Storytelling is a common thread with everything I do creatively, whether that is making a statement on feminism, heritage, or environmentalism through my artwork, telling the stories of others through unique and personal commissions, and passionately sharing the ideas and stories behind whatever it is I’m teaching, hoping everyone finds it as interesting as I do!

My main aim is to inspire creative confidence and encourage communication through art, whether that includes celebrating heritage, sending out powerful political, cultural or social messages, or it could even be as simple as creating something beautiful, yet still special and unique.