Who can get enough of our Flower Fields fabric design? We certainly can’t, which is why we’ve been pushing it into new shapes lately, the most recent of which are our Oblong and Round throw pillow and scatter cushion shapes, piped in lemon. Yummy! The Pillow Lab is where we like to play with things …
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More shapes of Flower Fields
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Colour Pop piping on Cushions and Pillows
We’re giving the Colour Pop treatment to everything now, because we LOVE the way it just gives our patterns a lift. Our latest trick is to use the Colour Pop palette to add piping to our patterned pillows and cushions. Don’t you think the lemon piping on our Flower Fields pillow is simply too fab? …
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Making Friday: Snakes!
Honestly, I don’t know why this is happening, but I keep drawing, weaving and printing snake motifs. Someone said it’s a symbol for change, so I’ll go with that. The snake at the top of this post is one I made at Baobab Batik when I was there in April with Ace Camps. He’s pretty …
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What goes with grey?
I never think of grey as a pastel shade, but when I saw the interior of Casaplata restaurant and cocktail bar in Sevilla, my views on greys, and on pastels in general, did a big back flip. These dusty, silvery tones are so subtle and gentle, without a hint of sweetness. The soft tones are …
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History lesson: Pincushion Protea
Just look at all the things our Pincushion design has appeared on over the years!
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How to arrange cushions and pillows
People always ask how best to arrange cushions and pillows on a sofa. And, of course, it’s not a simple answer. It was when we set up the Pillow Lab and started doing our experiments with mixing & matching pattern and palette that I truly began appreciating the COUNTLESS ways that a bunch of throw …
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Making Friday: Batik in Swaziland
My role on April’s trip to Swaziland with Ace Camps was to teach the group of travellers about pattern, and to give them an intro to the principles behind designing for batik. They came up with some really, really nice designs (see below), which set us all up nicely for the three subsequent days we …
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Interaction of Colour: New Complete Edition
I got an Amazon email the other day letting me now that Josef Albers Interaction of Colour has been released in a new, complete edition. Two volumes, hardbound, published by Yale University Press. Deliciousness! First issued in 1963 as a limited-edition set of 150 silkscreened colour plates, Interaction of Colour has been one of the …
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Making Friday: Decorating with Scissors
Ever done any decorating with scissors? It doesn’t involve moving furniture, painting walls or heavy lifting of any kind at all. All it needs is a magazine image that you like, some coloured paper, glue and scissors, and there you have it! It’s all just about looking in a noticing kind of way at what …
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