“Connecting our hearts through love yields a nectar so sweet we are forever full.”
― Amy Leigh Mercer
Coral & Tusk
Coral & Tusk’s creative process is a special alchemy of illustration, machine-embroidery, and hand-finishing. Designer Stephanie Housley begins with a story—perhaps a gentleman penguin with a crab best friend—which becomes a charming pencil drawing. It’s then scanned and redrawn. Once each magical scene is complete, trained artisans in Coral & Tusk’s workshops in India perform the bulk of the embroidery and production. The intricate hand-finishing takes place back in the brand’s Brooklyn studio.
It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing.
It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in; or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle.”