The Craft Behind Our Lily on the Rock Embroidery Set
Embroidery might look effortless, but every motif begins with hours of design, testing, and refinement. For our Lily on the Rock Set, we translated hand-drawn art into digital files, tested thread direction, color, and tension, until each stitch worked in harmony with the garment. Here's how it all came to life.
Here’s a closer look at the process, where design meets tradition, and craft meets concept with our Lily on the Rock, our embroidered top-and-pants set from the Midnight Bloom collection.
Embroidery: The Art of Decorating Fabric
Embroidery isn’t printed, it’s built thread by thread.
As one of the oldest forms of textile art, embroidery has been used for thousands of years across cultures to add meaning, beauty, and craftsmanship to garments. It involves stitching thread or yarn onto fabric using a needle, transforming textiles into something both decorative and deeply expressive.
The Sketch: Drawing a Bloom for the Body
To bring our vision to life, we didn’t rely on stock imagery. Instead, we closely observed real lilies and sketched them by hand - shaping a bloom that feels true to us and how we want clothes to feel on the body: fluid, grounded, and quietly powerful.
Our goal wasn’t just beauty, but movement. We wanted a flower that felt like it could grow with the body, following the waistline, curling gently over the chests, trailing down the legs.
So we mocked it up at full scale. We pinned paper sketches onto the actual garments, then moved, adjusted, and tested again.
Placement wasn’t just aesthetic. It was part of the structure.
From Sketching to Thread: The Embroidery Process
Once the layout felt right, we translated the hand sketch into digital embroidery files, a step that’s more technical than it sounds.
Here’s what it involved:
- Digitizing: Converting a drawing into a file that an embroidery machine can read.
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Stitch direction: Choosing which way the threads flow to create dimension.
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Layering: Mimicking the shadows of real petals using tones of blue, white, and soft silver.
- Thread tension: Adjusting tightness to avoid puckering or flattening the fabric.
- Test runs: Sampling the embroidery on scrap fabric to perfect color and depth.
The Lily On The Rock Set
The top is cropped and sculpted. The pants are high-waisted and fluid. But the real story is in how they move. The lily curves, the fabric drapes, and the whole piece works with your body rather than against it.
Inspiration: A Bloom in the Dark
The lily was our starting point - chosen for its grace, strength, and quiet symbolism of renewal. We were drawn to the way its soft, layered petals contrast with the sharp lines of its stem. Lily on the Rock reflects this balance: feminine yet strong, gentle but grounded.
What This Set Means to Us
In a world of fast fashion and superficial details, we created a set that invites you to pause.
Our Lily on the Rock isn’t mass-produced embroidery. It’s not a print pretending to be a thread.
It’s a long process of hand-drawing, testing, adjusting, and stitching for real bodies, real movement, and real presence.
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