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 …
One of the things I like to do when I travel is to look up people I consider to be colleagues in other cities, hoping to meet with them to chat about what it’s like to do similar kind of work in different parts of the world. While in Jaipur, I got in touch with Jemma …
This week, I’m in Jaipur, India, starting my second teaching stint with Ritchie Ace Camps. Last year’s Jaipur experience was amazing (lots of pics here), and I can’t wait to meet everyone who is coming on the 2015 version (although I’m going to miss last year’s group like mad!). I hadn’t used block printing techniques a lot …
I’m off to Jaipur again next week, for another Ritchie Ace Camps block printing teaching stint, where I’ll be staying at Hotel Diggi Palace, which I loved so much, I named our new fabric collection Diggi Dot! It seems like the perfect opportunity to let you know about our latest line of wallpaper for Robin Sprong …
Remember the block printed dupatta scarves from April this year? I designed them after my Jaipur trip last year, and they proved to be crazily popular – sold out within a couple of weeks of their arrival in April. Well, the good news is that we have more of them available in the shop now, but don’t …
There’s something about this photo that I took this pic on a terrace overlooking the street at Hotel Diggi Palace early one morning, that makes me hear angels singing heavenly music. Can you hear them? Aaaahh! It’s also the photo that I used as a starting point for the Mimosa Sunrise colour board in our Colour Book …
A room painted green is quite something to carry off, although this coffee house I photographed in Jaipur, and used on my Lemon Green colour board certainly manages to create an atmosphere with it. My Lemon Green colour palette in our Colour Book is a fair bit more subtle, with soft sages bumping gently up against sharp …
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 …
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 …