While art embroidery is old, Penn & Fletcher is relatively new. The company was formed in 1986 by two designers, Andrew B. Marlay and Ernest A. Smith, from the remnants of older embroidery studios. The roots of the company, much of the equipment and the embroidery heritage it maintains primarily dates back to the Brody Embroidery Company, established in 1921. With a large collection of French hand-guided embroidery machines, the earliest one dating back to 1878, the artisans at Penn & Fletcher create magic.
Penn & Fletcher is one of the few embroidery companies left in New York City but thriving because of passion and quality. The company is renowned among prominent designers and unparalleled by any other embroiderer in the city because of its broad spectrum of work from Broadway, opera, ballet TV and film to historic homes and museums to interiors of homes and yachts, and to advertising and fashion.
Penn & Fletcher
307 West 36th Street, Ground Flr. #309
New York, NY 10018