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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...

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 ...