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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Introducing Flower Ring
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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
My 2022 kicked off with a positive Covid test, but at least I’d managed to get tanned feet before I had to isolate. Being stuck at home has 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 feel like …
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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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I hate purple… or do I?
Through Darkness Into Light Skinny laMinx is one of Heath Ceramics‘ partners in craft (lucky us!) which means we always see their seasonal palette quite a long time before products are launched. I’m usually thrilled by their amazing colour combinations, but when I saw the Winter seasonal palette earlier this year, my reaction was. “PURPLE??” …
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Celebrating 10 years on Bree Street
It was 10 years ago, round about now, that I found out that my old studio on Buitengraght Street was to be demolished. I had to find a new place to work in… fast! I found a greasy little scooter repair shop on Bree Street, signed the lease, and got cracking on opening the first …
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8 ways to use a tea towel (aside from drying dishes)
Sometimes people ask us “What is a tea towel for?” or “How do I use a tea towel?” Well, the obvious answer is that it’s made for drying the dishes, but actually, a tea towel can do lots of other things too. Yes, they can multitask. Heck, they are the masters of multi-teatowel-tasking! We’ve come …
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Limited edition throw with VISI magazine
On my travels in Tokyo, in Jaipur, in Los Angeles, and all over South Africa too, I’ve always noticed & photographed the patterns of brise soleil structures. The brise soleil is a perforated architectural screen that became a defining stylistic feature of Modernist architecture, and these inspired the BRISE SOLEIL textile collection in 2016. Now, …
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