Bev Missing is the founder of body and bath product company Rain Africa, and is now the organising force behind Expedition Curiosity – her travel company specialising in immersive and authentic journeys to lesser-known places. Bev loves travel, but can’t bear the usual tourist packaged experience, so her mission with Expedition Curiosity is to travel …
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India with Expedition Curiosity
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A year of Making Fridays: 2017
I’m starting 2018 with a creative break, spending as much of January as possible in the studio, getting my creative batteries recharged. So instead of the standard ‘year in review’, I’ve decided to do a “Making Friday year in review’ post, taking stock of what happened during my behind-the-scenes studio practice, which I like to …
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Accidentally Wes Anderson
I came across the @accidentallywesanderson Instagram account while in Jaipur, and it changed my whole photographic approach to the Pink City.
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Colour Yum: Soft & sweet Jaipur
Soft, sweet colours, delicate shapes and textures – these are the things I noticed in Jaipur in 2014 , which was my first trip with Ace Camps, and these first impressions were reinforced on my recent trip.
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A Making Friday in Jaipur
The last time I was block printing in Jaipur, I had a brainwave…
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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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Best Things: Designers I met in India
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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Jaipur 2015: Flower market
I’ve just returned to Cape Town from India, having taught two pattern design and printing courses on the fabulous 2015 Ritchie Ace Camp Block Printing Tour. When I left home, our apartment was covered in dust and plastic, with a giant hole between what had been our bedroom and living room, and three weeks later, I’ve pretty …
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In the press: Jaipur visual diary for VISI
While teaching printing with Ace Camps in Jaipur, Heather kept a visual diary for VISI magazine.
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