When people ask what inspires my pattern designs, my answer may sound a bit unhelpful. That’s because in fact, I can find almost anything inspiring! In our product range, we have textile prints inspired by an architectural feature, and a silk scarf inspired by an apartment block. Also, textile ranges inspired by the way plants …
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Ribwort Plantain – inspiration for a textile design
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Furoshiki with a tea towel
In a recent post about multi-teatowel-tasking, I mentioned the idea of using a tea towel to wrap a gift, furoshiki-style, and here are DIY step-by-step instructions letting you know exactly how to do it (using, in this case, our new Flower Ring tea towel.: Step 1: With the print facing down, fold the tea towel into …
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8 ways to use a tea towel (aside from drying dishes)
Sometimes people ask us “What is a tea towel for?” or “How do I use a tea towel?” Well, the obvious answer is that it’s made for drying the dishes, but actually, a tea towel can do lots of other things too. Yes, they can multitask. Heck, they are the masters of multi-teatowel-tasking! We’ve come …
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Make your own Eyechart Wallhanging
We recently launched the EYECHART tea towel to help the Visionbox Foundation raise funds, and you can read all about the amazing work they do to help people see more clearly, even if they can’t afford a pair of specs. EYECHART is a good-looking tea towel (excuse the pun) so instead of using it to …
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Eye Love…
I’ve been wearing eyeglasses since I was 8 years old. But imagine if I had never got spectacles. I couldn’t read, draw, watch movies, enjoy people-watching, notice shadows, birds, shapes, compositions… and a million other things too. Without glasses, my experience of the world would be vastly different. In a hugely unequal country like ours, there …
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Colour: Shell and Sage
The colours in this gorgeous kitchen (Styled by Saša Antic for Alcro) could not be a better match for our Borrowed Spoons tea towels, in shell and sage.
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In the shop: Borrowed Spoons
It may be an oldie, but it’s certainly a goodie, which is why we’ve just re-released one of my very first tea towel designed (from way back in 2007), called Borrowed Spoons, in three yummy colourways called Graphite, Spruce and Shell. Read more about how this design first came about right here, and find the Borrowed Spoons tea …
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Spoons again
Josh Vogel makes spoons. Lots and lots of beautiful carved wooden spoons, and in his new book, The Artful Wooden Spoon, the former architect and founder of Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co. shows us what he does… as well as how you can do it too. It looks like a gorgeous book, and reminds me of when …
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Across the Sea – a brand new tea towel
It’s been a while since we made a new tea towel (the last one was the Stig design, remember?), and it’s always kind of exciting to have something brand new to show. So here we go with Across the Sea -– screenprinted on absorbant cotton hopsack in three seafaring colourways called Pacific, Sunrise and Granite. Perfect for daydreaming about …
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