It’s always fabulous to see how people have used my prints, and this jungly interior in a Cape Town holiday home, put together by decorator Lisa Walters is particularly exciting! Get the jungly look with our Fronds and ZigZag prints, available as readymade cushions, or as fabric by the metre.
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Jungly home
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What to do with your block printed scarf
It’s suddenly chilly in Cape Town, so those limited edition block printed scarves of ours can move to the front of the closet, but they’ve got lots of other uses too, you know. Here are some ideas: Find our block printed scarves for sale in the Skinny laMinx shop at 201 Bree Street, and online too.
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Oddjects exhibition 3 – 5 March
Don’t miss the Oddjects exhibition of ceramics and drawings at the Skinny laMinx shop from 3 – 5 March.
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Making Friday: From Sketchbook to Oddject
Notebooks are very useful things to have with you. They’re good for recording fleeting ideas, and good to look back on to see where you’ve been. For two years, I’ve kept this little “Ceramics Ideas” notebook alongside my other general notebook, jotting down ideas for shapes I’d like to make in the Monday morning ceramics classes I’ve …
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Best things: Dot dash dot…
The title of this post is not a misspelled alarm call in morse code, it’s a collection of dotty, line-y design I’ve spotted (geddit?) around the web lately: The mesmerising mobile-like Lines & Dots lamp from Barcelona’s Goula/Figuera studio Jonathan Adler’s giant Sputnik chandelier Dot Dash cushion from Block Shop Textiles Doings on Time and Light by Studio …
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New in the shop: Block Printed scarves
On my recent teaching trip to Jaipur with Ritchie Ace Camps, I had a couple of days off, and was pleased to put them to VERY good use, because after the success of our last crop of limited edition block printed scarves, I was excited to design some more. So now, just in the nick of …
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Mud resist block printing
We’ve just launched our second range of traditionally-made block printed scarves, designed by me, but made the old-fashioned way with wooden blocks and vegetable dyes, in a small printing compound in Bagru, India. The Weft design is the first time we’ve had a mud-resist and indigo dyed item made, and I thought you might be …
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In the shop: Height Charts
I have three brothers, and clearly remember the rivalry and glee when our birthdays came around and we would compare our heights against our siblings’ at the same age. My mom still has the beautifully-painted wooden height chart at her home, which her grandchildren now love measuring themselves against their parents’ heights. I don’t know …
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How to: Fold a Christmas tree napkin
Wish you knew how to fold a napkin (or dozen) into a forest of Christmas trees for your Holiday table? Follow our video tutorial below, made by the super clever Melissa!
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