Au revoir, Lesage

Embroidery legend Francois Lesage passed away December 4 at age 82. For 60 years, he led Maison Lesage, the last great embroidery atelier in Paris. In 1992, he founded the Lesage school to train embroiderers. His work has added incomparable richness to the worlds of surface design and haute couture. You can learn more about Lesage’s career from the memorial posts on the Hand and Lock Embroidery blog and Sublime Stitching and from his obituary in The Guardian. Or just enter his name in a web search to turn up thousands of images of his incredible work.