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Cloak of Invisibility
For our Transition fashion project I worked with the wonderful Jodie to make an invisibility cloak inspired by the incredible Dazzle camouflage battleships of WWI.For this project, I loved printing BIG...
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Prints for a Floating World
Here is some work from my 'Garden' project. I started with the Japanese idea of the 'Floating World' or Ukiyo-e, 'living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon,...
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Re-printing at the remakery
With so much patterned textile already out there, I'm becoming increasingly interested in ways of transforming old patterns into new, so in March I got together with the fab remakery in Brixton to have...
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Stencilling experiment
Just finished stencilling this wallpaper - my first stencils. Have always loved stencilled surfaces - more Japanese than Jocasta Innes. For this design I used a botanical watercolour by my grandmother...
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Stevie Wonder
Just finished these prints inspired by late summer and dancing to Stevie Wonder...I made them using lots of wax and digital print and then more waxI loved sharing them with people and seeing them get...
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Handmade books
I've been looking forward to a book-making session for a while as a way of recycling the huge mountain of printed papers in my garage. I started by sorting and sizing different papersa) wall papers and...
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Learning from the experts
For the last few weeks I've been interning with Christopher Farr Cloth and learned so much about taking a design into production. I've been developing colour ways for the new wall paper range and then...
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Hanging out with the kids
wow just been helping out on the Chelsea Summer Schoolthese guys and girls come from schools all over London and together made some awesome worknearly remembered what it feels like to be 17 again...
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In praise of not decorating
Just visited this magic house full of long-forgotten patterns all happily living side by side.
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Another way of looking
Karin's photograph inspired me toConceal surface + reveal new pattern = another way of looking
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Tyntesfield
Went to Tyntesfield in Somerset yesterday to research more of my secret life of patterns. These were some of the amazing things I saw. Many thanks to Ruth Moppet for letting me wander about. The...
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Light
Now it's getting dark I'm seeing great lights and colours everywhere. I'm really enjoying putting these together with some of my fabric collection and making new pattern ideas.
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Portsmouth
We went to Portsmouth on Saturday and saw so many ships. Thanks so much to Andrew and Rachel for putting us at the Royal Maritime Hotel and to Portsmouth Dockyard for all the fabulous patterns -...
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In the Print Room
This is the print room with the best views in London....Meanwhile inside some pretty thrilling print-making going on - thanks to students from The Widening Participation Project at University of the...
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Curtains
These are the final printed lengths for my latest project - Space Invaders. I experimented with readymade patterns, transforming them through resist printing, overprinting, dying and bleaching. I...
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Great Western
Our New Year's treat was a visit to the Didcot Railway centre, a treasure trove of all that was the Great Western Railway.We got very wet and cold but it was worth it to enjoy the plush upholstered...
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Recipe for pattern
I've started to make patterns on my allotments. I want to find out what makes a good patternHere is one of my best patterns - a co-design between gardener and grass. All the best patterns seem to be a...
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