The response to our new range of block printed scarves has been fantastic! Thanks so much to everyone who already bought one at our Thursday night event, and online too. If you’re interested in finding out more about the process of traditional Indian block printing, this video shows it beautifully.
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From Rajasthan, with love
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Launching: Block Printed Scarves
Join us in our shop tonight as we launch our exciting collection of hand-blocked cotton scarves, which I designed after my teaching trip to Jaipur with Ritchie Ace Camps last October. Each scarf has been block printed by hand in a small printing house in Bagru village, just outside Jaipur, using vegetable dyes and printed onto fine cotton …
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Inspired by India
After returning home from my teaching trip to Jaipur with Ritchie Ace Camps last year, I was so excited about what I’d learned about the Rajasthani block printing I’d seen, but I was kicking myself a little for not having met up with printers to develop something for Skinny laMinx. I had been in the land of …
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Block Printing with Jesse
After my teaching stint in Jaipur with Ritchie Ace Camps last year, lots of people at home asked me about learning to block print here in Cape Town. Well, I have good news for you: Jesse Breytenbach is an illustrator and a Fine Arts-trained printmaker, who has been lino block printing for YEARS! Her …
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Plant-filled homes
I recently spotted this gorgeous AirBnB apartment in Cape Town, all done up by architect Astrid von Brucken in Skinny laMinx Paradise is Here prints. Isn’t it a fresh, plant-filled treat? it got me thinking about all the plant-filled, botanical-themed, and frankly junglicious apartments and homes I’ve spotted around the web, so I hunted down a …
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Paradise on your phone
Earlier this week, we got samples of our own made-to-order cellphone covers, available in the Skinny laMinx SKETCHBOOK store on Nuvango. They’re beautifully packaged, arriving in a little felt sleeve to keep it safe. Aww! We liked them so much, we immediately decided to put some of our Paradise is Here gift tag designs onto phone …
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Making Friday: 6 Feb 2015
I had red and blue fingers by the end of Making Friday, after spending most of the day trying out the same print in different layouts and combinations, in a very small range of variables, namely: red or blue / right side or upside down / different kinds of spacing. I enjoy this rather repetitive patternmaking exercise …
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Colours of Echevaria
We have loads of succulents at home and on the studio roof garden, but I have never been very good at remembering their botanical names. However, the name of the Echevaria genus – named after the 18th century Mexican botanical artist Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy (thanks, Wikipedia) – has managed to stick. That’s because all of a sudden, …
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Frankenflowers… on your cellphone!
Quite a few years ago, I used to spend fun hours with ceramics transfers that I’d had made, creating plates, bowls, mugs etc, decorated with my sketches. I was only able to have the transfer sheets printed in one colour, so I liked to chop up the sheets, and assemble the parts into crazy mixed-up …
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