Last year, I went off to Jaipur at the invitation of Ritchie Ace Camps, to teach a three day course in pattern generation and design as part of a seven day experiential tour focussed on traditional Indian block printing and dying techniques. My role was to teach how to design and create pattern using lino …
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Making Friday – Block Printing
While teaching block printing on the Ritchie Ace Camp last year (and again in October this year), I’ve been using carved lino blocks, but I did bring back some super-simple wooden blocks from Jaipur to play with too. Whether printing with lino or with wood blocks (or designing prints to be produced on scarves) the thing I’ve …
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In the Press: My City
Are you planning a trip to Cape Town some time? I’ve got a couple of things to recommend, and I put them into this article for the April issue of The Simple Things magazine. Read it here.
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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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Back to Jaipur in 2015
Just yesterday, I spotted the new VISI magazine, which has this lovely spread on my Block Printing tour to Jaipur with Ritchie Ace Camps in October last year. That’s the trip where I taught patterns and printing to an amazing group who had come from all around the world to learn about block printing and pattern …
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Succulents galore!
I’ve just got back from a belated 10 day Christmas break on a farm outside Robertson. Mostly we laughed, swam, sat on the stoep, watched birds (and watched out for cobras), and had the most superbly relaxing time. What bliss! Of course, I have squillions of pics from our holiday, but having just dived back into …
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Jaipur shopping – Blocks, Locks & Bling
Jaipur is a city built for shopping. Really, that is what it was designed for, when Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II built the city in 1727, expressly for artisans and merchants to practice and sell their work. So all the shopping I did was actually a cultural experience, not just a mere indulgence. But indulge, I did, and while …
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Jaipur screens
More pics from Jaipur today: this time, some of the screens, lattices and brise soleil structures I spotted while on my trip. I have many, many regrets in this category, as so many astonishing examples flashed by while I was being driven around, and stopping in that KRAZEE traffic was not an option. I’ll simply …
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