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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I hate purple… or do I?
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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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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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Light + Shade : An exhibition
On Wednesday 1 September, ceramicist Sarah Walters and I launch our Light + Shade exhibition at the Sarah Walters Gallery at 7 Wheelan Street, Newlands Village. We’ve been carrying Sarah’s beautiful mugs in our shop for a while now, but after a conversation we had about how hard it is to find beautiful lamp bases, …
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Make your own Eyechart Wallhanging
We recently launched the EYECHART tea towel to help the Visionbox Foundation raise funds, and you can read all about the amazing work they do to help people see more clearly, even if they can’t afford a pair of specs. EYECHART is a good-looking tea towel (excuse the pun) so instead of using it to …
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Eye Love…
I’ve been wearing eyeglasses since I was 8 years old. But imagine if I had never got spectacles. I couldn’t read, draw, watch movies, enjoy people-watching, notice shadows, birds, shapes, compositions… and a million other things too. Without glasses, my experience of the world would be vastly different. In a hugely unequal country like ours, there …
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Summer Seasonal at Heath Ceramics
It’s Summer in the Northern hemisphere now, and the Summer Seasonal range at Heath Ceramics has been launched, in a range of intense blues. We’ve been working with Heath Ceramics since 2008, and it’s always an honour and a treat to get the Heath seasonal palettes a couple of months ahead of each launch. Other …
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Start a pattern habit
My New Year’s resolution was to get in the groove of a daily pattern habit. The rule is that every morning before I start work, I fill a page of my pattern journal with some kind of pattern. I spend 15-20 minutes using the grid lines in my notebook to work through what a simple motif can do. Then, …
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