Starling Glasto Starmap, a heavyweight woven wrap, has been woven on our combed cotton, teal green, Glasto warp and uses a natural linen weft. This is the same fibre combination as our Facebook Group exclusive, Starling Glasto Murmuration. From the bag, the first thing that you will notice is that it smells of hay! This […]
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The image of a bare-branched tree is something that has always resonated strongly with me (you’d only need to take a quick look at my art collection to come to that conclusion yourself!). I love the metamorphosis that autumn brings, the once verdant leaves turning red and copper and gold, dropping to the ground and […]
Here is a wrap for all of you turquoise fans out there! 2 tones of turquoise, Aqua, a gentle pastel turquoise and Rigel, a bold and zingy turquoise, made from alternating shades of blue. Our two toned blue weft is named for Rigel, the brightest star in the constellation of Orion, and a ‘blue giant’, […]
The names that we give things can have a huge influence over how we view them, and so we are always mindful when inventing them for new wraps. We had a competition to name a design a while back and chose “tentacular spectacular” as our winner. It divided opinion, with some people taking delight in the […]
Pyrula Aqua Vortex embodies our enthusiasm for sunny days and sandy beaches. There is a certain light at the seaside in the North of England during the summer months that belies the comparative weakness of the sun’s rays up here on even the hottest days, and that influences our colour palette- we can’t help but hint at […]
On paper, Rosecup Aqua Festival seems like a delicate little flower with her light aqua warp and coral/cream weft (her name is inspired by the pretty, paper thin pink shells that brighten up the beaches here). Despite her seemingly demure colouring, she really packs a visual punch! We like to combine colours that will blend […]
I have a confession to make- I am terrified of spiders!! I can’t even touch a picture of one in a book, the cartoon ones on my boys’ t-shirts makes me shudder (they chose them for this very reason). When Tamsin first proposed that we make a spiderweb design I inwardly groaned!! I have always […]
We’ve been working on a new design, with a working title of ‘Northern Lights’, for many months now. It was a difficult process because, like the ‘Winter Hill’ design, it has personal significance and that makes every single pencil mark so much more important. Sentiment can stir up a special level creative energy and sensitivity, but […]
Weaving is an incredibly old skill- we have been making textiles for many thousands of years, and cloth massively shaped the development of our modern society. We take it for granted, but it is a pretty amazing feat of engineering- taking fibres and turning them into a material that has a completely new set of properties. Individual threads […]
