Resident profile - Marie Archambaud

Metal embroiderer, Marie Archambaud is a resident at Les Ateliers de Paris. She explores embroidery as a true field of experimentation, giving rise to root-like lace and cellular meshes resembling metallic fabrics. In an approach she describes as textile goldsmithing, her embroideries are inspired by the living world and range from jewelry and accessories to clothing and embroidered sculptures.

Trained in textiles and gold thread embroidery in Rochefort, Marie Archambaud enriched her career in 2019–2020 by becoming a laureate of the Voyager pour les Métiers d’Art program of the Culture & Diversity Foundation, supported by UNESCO. This experience led her to spend four months at the Ishani embroidery workshop in Mumbai, where she discovered Indian embroidery.
A graduate ofENSAAMA Olivier de Serres with a Higher Diploma in Applied Arts, specializing in crafts, she discovered metalwork there. This training served as a veritable research laboratory, allowing her to explore the synergies between embroidery and jewelry and lay the foundations for her artistic universe.

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In 2022, she created her metal embroidery workshop and studio. Since then, she has been collaborating with designers and fashion houses, while also developing her own personal creations—jewelry, paintings, and embroidered sculptures.

 
By combining techniques from the textile and metal industries, Marie Archambaud explores the contemporary potential of metal embroidery and designs creations for the luxury, fashion, and visual merchandising sectors, with applications ranging from packaging to window displays.

Keen to pass on and promote its expertise, it also offers introductory courses and workshops for the general public. These opportunities to share knowledge allow participants to discover metal embroidery through traditional gold embroidery techniques, particularly cannetille, as well as techniques from the art of threadwork incorporating metal thread.

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Its news

Trade Show – Maison d’Exceptions
Marie Archambaud will be participating in the Maison d’Exceptions trade show, part of Première Vision, from February 3 to 5, 2026, at the Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center. She will be presenting her new embroidery designs and a collection of perfume jewelry.

Exhibition – The Art of Making
She will present "Arbor," a new sculptural creation, as part of the exhibition The Art of Making at the Petit Palais from February 24 to March 1, organized by the CMA in Paris.

Introductory workshops
In her workshop, Marie Archambaud offers introductory workshops in metal embroidery, where participants can create a piece of jewelry or an embroidered picture on paper.

She will also lead a workshop on creating metal flowers during the Paris Workshops Open House on April 10 and 11 from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Marie Archambaud