As you know, my Making Friday studio practice is all about making, making, making, with no real plan or expectation or need in mind. I find it so important to simply generate work that’s liberated from all the necessary work restrictions of cost and production possibility etc that product development requires. Here’s some of the …
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Making Friday: From the studio walls
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Print / Repeat / Retreat – a weekend workshop escape
Take some time out from your To Do list, and join Heather on a weekend workshop break at Arumvale Country Retreat in the beautiful Swellendam countryside. On the workshop, you’ll get hands-on insights into how pattern is created, & you’ll also learn how to carve & print your own designs onto paper & textile. In …
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Dimensional wallpaper
Three years ago, we collaborated with California ceramics company Heath Ceramics on the Dimensional textile range, inspired by their Dimensional tile range. Read all about that collaboration here. Since then, this range has been sold exclusively at Heath Ceramics stores in San Francisco and LA, and in the Skinny laMinx shop too. This week, however, …
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Threadcount Collective Reunite
10 years ago, Jane Solomon of FabricNation, Tracy Rushmere of Shine-Shine , me of Skinny laMinx, and Melissa Kerkhoff of Lula Fabrics, all had a textile collective that we called the Threadcount Collective. At the time, the textile industry in Cape Town was falling apart, and so the four of us would get together once …
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A Good Start to a good day
Every Wednesday morning, Paul and I are out of the house before dawn, off to join the Breakfast Club, where a bunch of volunteers cook and serve breakfast to the little learners at Good Hope Seminary Junior School. By 8:30am, tummies are full, and about 400 cups, bowls and spoons have been washed and packed away, …
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Fashion Collaboration with King Louie
In 2016, while visiting Europe to promote our Brise Soleil range, I first came across Dutch fashion brand King Louie in a shop in Paris, and fell in love with their feminine vintage styling. All their prints and cuts just felt like exactly the vintage clothes I was always hoping to find, but never did. Little …
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Cook Better workshop
Find out all about this weekend’s Vinaigrette workshop.
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In The Press: Prudential
We’re happy to see the Heather Moore for MRP Home collaboration appear in a feature in Prudential magazine. See the article here.
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Lovilee’s room makeover
So thrilled to see some of my items from the MRP Home x Heather Moore COLAB used in this gorgeous room makeover from Lovilee blog. Missed the MRP Home COLAB? Read all about it here.
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