Hector Maclean

“I had the absolute honour and pleasure of working with Saminamary and her incredible learners Charlie and Gulsah, the unbelievable talent that they posses is breath taking and helped greatly with this project to become extraordinary. From independent working to illustrating the dragons themselves with amazing skill and with hardly any embroidery thread, they did an incredible amazing job!

Saminamary was an absolute pleasure in coming in and teaching the beautiful interns about various techniques as well as working on the spinal cord details and as well as embroidering the eye of a dragon for a beautiful dress we were doing. And I can not be more thankful for the skill level and their attention to detail they showed sheer talent.

I am very, very grateful and thankful to all these incredible embroiderers and artisans who have been involved in making the Girl who ate the Dragon just an amazing collection. Obviously Saminamary classes are teaching people incredible skills, making sure people who are doing work experience know what they are doing with very little interaction or need for help, that they are strong independent workers and that is something wonderful for a designer as I do not have to guide people every second: I felt they were kind, sweet and incredible at their jobs”.