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 …
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Best Things: Designers I met in India
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Making Friday: Block Printing mega version
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 …
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Diggi Dot – the Movie
I hope you spotted the fun we were having on Instagram with a series of short-short ‘teaser’ videos leading up to the Diggi Dot launch? Well, now that we’ve finally launched, here’s a full video telling the story behind this fabric collection. And… action!
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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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Making Friday – what it’s all about
Anyone else running a business based upon the results of their creativity will be able to relate when I say that I’m always trying find time to spend in the studio, doing the creative work, but there’s always so much other work to do, and long spans of time are pretty rare. I’ve written a fair …
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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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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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Making Friday: a 2014 review
My Making Friday rule has become a little more flexible lately, largely because my ceramics class is on a Monday morning, and also because my back pain has caused me to take steps to spend more time away from the computer. So there’s a lot MORE MAKING going on, but not necessarily on a Friday, …
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I’m off to Jaipur!
This will be my last blog post for most of October, as I’m about to head off to India, immersing myself in beautiful patterns, textiles and colours while also teaching (and learning!) on the Jaipur Block Printing tour organised by Ritchie Ace Camps. I am so excited to visit the Pink City, to meet everyone who …
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