Love Embroidery

Charles & Elin

Boy meets girl, girl meets boy; girl introduces boy to embroidery – and so blossoms a wonderfully crafty romance. Now, that’s our kind of love story. French-Swedish couple Charles Henry and Elin Petronella, founders of Charles and Elin embroidery, met in Paris seven years ago, and have been creatively inseparable ever since.

“I had started my embroidery Instagram account (@) just a couple of weeks before we met”, says Elin: “I was stitching my first commission when Charles became intrigued and wanted to try it out himself. At the time, he was a professional artist and fashion photographer in Paris, so he found

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