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red wool and silk cushions from twig
Beat the winter blues this season with some of our gorgeous new wool cushions.
Available in three perky designs and two vibrant colourways these cushions are made from soft wool melton fabric and embellished with punchy silk applique. You can find them on our website.
Just the ticket for a cosy home this winter!
recycled embroidered eco cushions
We have a new collection of embroidered cushions.
We made a decision not too long ago that we wanted to be a little greener and so we’ve been working hard to develop a range of cushions made from sustainable textiles. We’ll explain more soon, but for now let’s just say our eco cushions are made from a combination of natural, unbleached hemp, recycled fabrics and that because of the way they are made each one is completely unique.
Eco cushions will be appearing on our website and in our etsy shop this coming week. Watch this space!
One nice thing that happened whilst we were away was our teal bebop cushion making it to the front page of etsy!
Thanks to Holly at Winklepots for a lovely treasury.
It’s easy to buy our studio collections of cushions now we have opened our etsy shop .
You can shop online for zanzibar, bebop and bloom.
We’re also developing a few etsy exclusives which should appear in the next couple of weeks, as well as finalising our next collection of cushions. So keep stopping by to see what’s new for twig!
zanzibar embroidered silk cushions
We’ve just launched zanzibar our latest studio collection.
Featuring three embroidered silk cushions in deliciously rich tones of red earth, orange and pink, zanzibar is set to become a twig favourite.
What better way to spice up your home?
Zanzibar is available exclusively from twig.
embroidered conservatory cushions
Cushions in the conservatory are a great way of adding an instant splash of vibrant colour to your home.
Be careful to choose sturdy fabrics which won’t rot and fade in the bright sunlight. We made these bespoke cushions using a robust cotton base with silk appliqué and embroidery detail.
They were designed to compliment the room’s blue and green furniture as well as linking to the orange and green elements in the garden.
The lovely folk at Hainsworth have sent some of their gorgeous pure wool fabrics for twig to sample.
What’s great about these fabrics apart from the quality and colour range is that Hainsworth is one of the only fully vertical mills still working in the UK and all the textiles they sell are produced by their 200 strong team of local Leeds residents, many of whom have been working in the company for years. So they meet our aim to source some of our fabrics ‘locally’.
Expect to see some cosy wool meltons appearing in the studio collections later in the year.
Here is a glimpse of a commission for Dolly, a very special baby.
‘hello dolly’ baby throw
A red cotton throw with applique flowers in natural linen and batic cotton. As a special extra we’ve named the design hello dolly. It’s not every little girl who gets to boast a designer collection in their own name, eh Dolly?
The hello dolly design will be available from twig in the very near future on a very exciting project we aren’t quite ready to reveal….what a tease!
I was really privileged to get to meet two amazing embroiderers, Alice Kettle and Rachael Howard, this weekend when I took myself off to Liverpool for the Regional Day for the North West branches of the Embroiderers Guild.
If you think that embroidery is all about neat petite sensible pictures then think again! This was a day which celebrated two very talented and highly skilled artists both pushing the limitations of embroidery in their own highly distinctive style. You may well have never heard of either of them because embroidery rarely receives the attention it deserves.
I’ve always been a huge fan of Alice Kettle because her work defies every expectation and preconception you may have about embroidery. Here is a shot of her working on her latest piece, a solidly embroidered panel measuring a staggering 3 metres by 16.5 metres!
winchester discovery centre panel in progress
You can see more of her work on her website.
In contrast to these dense solid stiches Rachael’s quirky, sketchy printed and applique panels and tales of her work with primary school kids had me in stitches.
sunning by rachael howard
It’s always inspiring and encouraging to hear other designers talk about their work and inspiration and listening to Alice and Rachael reminded me how contemporary embroidery is very much alive as a dynamic, innovative and skilled field of design.
And both of them were incredibly lovely and friendly to boot.
One of us at least (and no prizes for guessing it wasn’t Jason) was delighted to discover this beautiful film, A Common Thread.
Yes, really, a film about embroidery!
And it couldn’t be more beautiful.
It’s a deliciously slow, visually striking story of two very different women struggling with their own private experiences as stitch by stitch the boundaries between them unravel and the common threads running through their lives unite them.
And all of this is set against a backdrop of mouthwatering close up shots of intricate couture embroidery and stunning, tonal, poetic still life moments.
Go watch!
