We’ve teamed up with Robin Sprong Wallpapers to produce repositionable tile stickers,
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Stick-on pattern with Robin Sprong
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MAKING FRIDAY : Tile design inspiration
A short video showing the origin of the Daisy Day tile design.
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We’ve gone Up, Up & Online!
Skinny has turned a corner. Quite literally in fact! The Skinny laMinx shop has closed, with the new studio entrance just around the corner at 16a Buiten Street. We’ve decided to make a strong shift, moving our focus to online only, so February 2022 was our last month as a brick-and-mortar store on Bree St, …
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Cold Comfort
This image by Andrey Avdeenko is of Comfort Town – a neighbourhood in Kyiv that’s been painted bright colours to lift the spirits during cold, dark winters. I hope it lifts your spirits today, even if it is just to recall that beauty and joy have power, even in the darkest times, and that …
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Introducing Flower Ring
Our brand new Flower Ring design is a pretty two-colour floral print screenprinted on cotton slub fabric Look a bit more closely though, and you’ll notice that the little flowers on the head of the plant are travelling upwards – it’s almost like a little animation. I like to notice weeds – often beautiful, frequently …
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Ribwort Plantain – inspiration for a textile design
When people ask what inspires my pattern designs, my answer may sound a bit unhelpful. That’s because in fact, I can find almost anything inspiring! In our product range, we have textile prints inspired by an architectural feature, and a silk scarf inspired by an apartment block. Also, textile ranges inspired by the way plants …
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Making Friday: The Attention Habit
2022 kicked off with a positive Covid test. Being stuck at home made me remember how things were reduced to essentials during those first months of the 2020 Lockdown, which is why these words from Isabella Rosellini became my wish for the new year. The Attention Habit1. Every month, I’ll choose a particular subject to …
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Furoshiki with a tea towel
In a recent post about multi-teatowel-tasking, I mentioned the idea of using a tea towel to wrap a gift, furoshiki-style, and here are DIY step-by-step instructions letting you know exactly how to do it (using, in this case, our new Flower Ring tea towel.: Step 1: With the print facing down, fold the tea towel into …
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Word Cloud
Q: How do you make a word cloud?A: Ask 382 people to enter a competition by writing 5 words describing Skinny laMinx, then feed all 1 910 words into a Word Cloud Generator. So even though we gathered these words as the entrance fee for a lucky draw, I feel as though we’re the ones who won the prize. Thank …
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