Huckleberry Starnes is a sculptor and product designer living in Atlanta. However, he’s lately pivoted to the medium of vintage-inspired embroidery, a shift he undertook during the pandemic.
“I was doing some research on a bowling shirt that I was curious about, and … I realized that prior to computers doing all our embroidery, there was actually a person sitting at a hand-controlled machine that was manually stitching all of these designs,” Starnes explains.
Now an expert on using antique hand-guided embroidery machines (the two in his studio are over 100 years old), Starnes produces custom-embroidered garments and patches. He draws his inspiration from everyday things but with a special eye for vintage and antique styles and paraphernalia.
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