I’ve just returned to Cape Town from India, having taught two pattern design and printing courses on the fabulous 2015 Ritchie Ace Camp Block Printing Tour. When I left home, our apartment was covered in dust and plastic, with a giant hole between what had been our bedroom and living room, and three weeks later, I’ve pretty …
Just yesterday, I spotted the new VISI magazine, which has this lovely spread on my Block Printing tour to Jaipur with Ritchie Ace Camps in October last year. That’s the trip where I taught patterns and printing to an amazing group who had come from all around the world to learn about block printing and pattern …
December is such a busy time, but today’s the last day of the year, so it’s time to step back and to take a whizz back through the blog archives, to see what the heck we got up to during 2015. Here goes: In May we launched the Diggi Dot fabric collection, as well as the …
Ever since the first teaching trip to India with Ace Camps in 2014, we’ve been working with the same small-batch blockprinters in the Rajasthani village of Bagru to produce our small batches of limited-run blockprinted scarves. So far, we’ve produced 5 different designs, and now we’re thrilled to introduce two new scarves: Sun & Moon …
I’m starting 2018 with a creative break, spending as much of January as possible in the studio, getting my creative batteries recharged. So instead of the standard ‘year in review’, I’ve decided to do a “Making Friday year in review’ post, taking stock of what happened during my behind-the-scenes studio practice, which I like to …
We spent our holiday very much at home, which was a really good thing to do after a rather disrupted home in 2015. Shortly after having bought the apartment next door early in the year, we found our neighbours were going to have a baby in November, so we rather hastily started our long dreamed-of …
A little Christmas tree made of lino shavings is a neat way to round off a year where block printing has loomed large, what with our block print inspired Diggi Dot collection, two collections of block printed scarves, and another trip to Jaipur to teach (and learn) about this amazing way of creating pattern. When …