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Artists Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell were founders of the Bloomsbury Group. The group was radical for its time, with artists, writers and thinkers...

In January 2024, our founder Joanna headed to Jaipur in India to visit traditional wood block printing workshops. This is where we met the artisans...

Since plastic bags were banned in the UK, we've all got lots of fabric bags hanging about. That's great for the environment but sometimes they're n...

Florals began to be used in Indian textile design during the 12th century when Islamic influence was dominant. During the Mughal empire of North In...

Marion Dorn (1896-1964) was an American designer best known for her wall hangings, carpets and rugs. In her early career she was based in New York ...

Enid Marx (1902-1998) was a pioneering designer who mostly famously created  seating moquette fabric for London Transport. In the 1920s she was alr...

Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was a leading designer of abstract prints and patterns in the 1920s and 30s. She originally trained in Russia and German...

Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1863-1933) was a Scottish designer and key figure in the ‘Glasgow style’ of the 1890s. She joined Glasgow School of ...

We’re loving Art Deco at the moment and looking at artists such as Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), who is best known as a painter but also had an influenti...

Marianne Straub (1909-1994), one of the leading commercial textile designers in Britain from the 1940s to the 1960s. Born in Switzerland, she studi...

This month we are celebrating the birthday of May Morris (1862-1938). She was an early feminist design activist! Often overshadowed by her famous f...

Today we are profiling Celia Birtwell, iconic British fashion and surface pattern designer. She was studying at Salford School of Art when she met ...