As Maggie Magoo Designs, artist Carole Fenwick creates a variety of products filled with pattern and colour. Her ranges include printed textiles, embroidery art, stationery goods, homewares, art prints and more. Her work is primarily inspired by nature, with flowers, foliage, moths & beetles featuring throughout the designs. She is an avid collector of folk …
Throughout Millie’s designs, whether they are inspired by modernist architecture, the idea of play within the home, or nature; her work is always colour focused and made to the highest quality using natural fabrics and either hand screen printing techniques or eco-friendly digital printing. Millie’s products and fabrics are created with a story to tell, …
Nesh is a collection of knitted accessories and things for the home all created by Kate Woodfield on her 1970’s manual knitting machine. Each piece is knitted using a Fairisle punch card and then hand-finished. Products include wrist warmers, headbands, snoods and hats as well as bags, purses, Christmas decorations and leg warmers and scarves. …
Emma creates joyous playful art that appeals to a wide audience. She describes herself as an illustrator and maker of monsters – creating one-of-a-kind monster plushies that all come with a hand drawn story card. The story cards describe how the monster (Colin or Dave or Susan- they tend to have quite ordinary names) like …
Janet’s hand dyed fabric and stitch work consists of maps, allotments and gardens based on familiar places, journeys and experiences primarily in Yorkshire and some coastal locations. It is constructed of hand dyed cotton, calico wadding with hand and machine embroidery. It is developed from a long process using sketches from observations and is influenced …
Clare creates vibrant, colourful handwoven textile products. Using her 24 shaft dobby loom, Clare weaves short runs of her signature fabrics. She then makes the fabrics into textile products such as cushions, buttons, pouches and small art pieces. Clare is available for commission work for larger pieces such as bespoke upholstery projects. With her bold …
Alison Evans is a Derbyshire based paper-cutwork (scherenshnitte) artist. She creates artwork from her original hand-cut designs. Inspired by nature and the environment and using recycled paper, backed with beautiful fabrics. Primarily a garden designer, Alison turned her hand to paper cutting in 2011, making hand-cut pieces for friends and family. ‘Fancy Plants’, created by …
Aidan is a textile printer and natural dyer based in Yorkshire with a particular interest in traditional block printing techniques to create fabrics and pieces for the home. As a member of the Heritage Craft Association her process is a kinder and slower way of making by hand – from designing and carving the block, …
Catherine Hill is an award-winning artist from Lancashire, based in the UK. Easily recognised for her creative use of embroidered text, she has been invited to publish work in several publications most recently in Embroidering the Everyday: Found Stitch Paint by Cas Holmes. Her work combines vintage red thread and cotton cloth to create unique …
A site-specific textile, interactive installation, built to spectacular dimensions in gaudy and enticing colours. Grace works with oilcloth to make shiny, colourful crafted objects and installations, and is excited to bring this work to her native West Yorkshire in a new formation, and a domestic setting. This patchwork piece uses the traditional pinwheel pattern, made …