Elizabeth Elvin has enjoyed a long and varied career teaching hand embroidery. She joined the RSN in 1964 when it was based at Princes Gate, Kensington and where she went on to specialise in teaching goldwork and silkwork. Her part-time teaching included work for the Inner London Council and church work for the Royal School of Church Music. She also worked with Beryl Dean on a number of important ecclesiastical commissions and between 1982 and 1987 taught goldwork on the RSN Apprenticeship. She became Principal of the RSN in 1987 when the organisation moved to Hampton Court Palace. Liz Elvin has taught throughout the UK, in Canada , Australia and the USA. Having taken early retirement from the RSN in 2007 she now lectures on and teaches hand embroidery.
