Studio Anneleen Bertels offers consultancy for textile & embroidery design, but also works on the execution of bespoke pieces.

The Lab zooms into the art of embroidery in all its facets:

Yarns: from natural and local resources, innovative fibers

Beads: experimenting and creating own unique beads from all kind of reclaimed, recycled and precious materials

Techniques: research for new textile techniques within embroidery applications

The in-house savoir-faire: bead embroidery such as needlework & with Luneville hook, Broderie d’Or

She zooms into the art of embroidery in all its facets: yarns, beads and techniques. Yarns from natural and local resources and innovative fibers. Experimenting and creating own unique beads from all kind of reclaimed, recycled and precious materials. Research for new textile techniques within embroidery applications.

Thanks to Anneleen's contemporary vision on traditional textiles and today's challenges, the Studio wants to contribute to a more holistic textile industry and especially transmit this knowledge.

The Lab's methodology is to design from the material and technique itself; pushing and twisting the properties, limitations and possibilities by entangling textile, embroidery and jewelry techniques.

She imagines how she can merge artisanal techniques with more innovative and industrial techniques to create a dialogue between the artisanal and the machine made.

The Lab collaborates with highly skilled artisans such as - goldsmiths, stonecutters, Japanese kasuri weavers, banana fiber craftsmen, braiding & ropemaking artisans - to intertwine traditional knowledge and innovative techniques, exchange material expertise and create new material applications.

Thanks to the realisation of various projects she gained professional experiences to be able to execute projects with high precision, sensibility for contemporary craftsmanship, cultural exchanges & collaborations.

“With my work I create a contemporary vision on what embroidery can be, now and in the future. I want to interweave textile cultures and achieve innovative craftsmanship. I want to manifest a physical form of poetry.”