Sometimes inspiration comes from giant mountain vistas, breathtakingly beautiful music or deep-felt emotions. Other times it comes from a very specific shade of blue. Yes, it is nothing epic to ...
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Star Wars in the Middle-Ages
Does sudden inspiration ever strike you at the strangest of times? I was in the workshop last month working on a project with one of our team members, Sarah, when two words that I had heard ...
The Last-Minute Knights…
It is said that no battle plan survives contact with the enemy. Well, that goes for costume design plans too! Sometimes you can prepare for months and then the plan goes off without a hitch. ...
It’s Not an Adventure Until Something Goes Wrong…
By Zan Campbell of Fell & Fair Productions So often, these days, people go seeking “adventure” except that they spend so much time and money beforehand, ensuring that nothing goes wrong, that ...
Let’s Hold a Wedding… With Swords!
As a guy, it’s hard sometimes to get inspiration from wedding planning. Let’s be honest, that’s usually not a dude thing… until you add swords. Do I have your attention now? As ...
Modernist Textile Design: Perfectly Patterned
If we wanted to begin, and then immediately end, the discussion on textile design during the Modernist period we could’ argue that to remain loyal to Modernist design in its purest form, ...
Pioneers of Modernist Architecture, Part Two: Alvar Aalto and Charles and Ray Eames
In Part Two we continue looking at pioneers of Modernist architecture; the following architects brought an expansive creativity to Modern design that pushed the boundaries even farther. Their ...
Pioneers of Modernist Architecture, Part One: Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier
The first of our Modernist heroes’ are three men who at the beginning of the twentieth century were sailing into the future creating a new landscape within architecture and design. They ...
Modernist Architecture and Design: A View to the Future
In this new series we will explore the Modernist Movement in architecture and design and how it has influenced our society and lifestyle from its inception through today. By 1930’s no ...
Benefits of the Internet and how You Can Work with Us
We are living in a completely different world to the days when I was a little girl, bear in mind I say this even though’ I’m in my early 30s. My children are more likely to know how ...
Artisan Embroidery: Lucia LaVilla-Havelin
Our last article in the artisan embroidery series is a bit of a special one – the series has allowed us to explore some wonderful stitched art, but it also led us to discover our next ...
Artisan Embroidery: Stewart Easton
Most of the embroiderers in this series have been women – it is a traditionally female craft after all, but there are men doing wonderful things as we’ve already seen with Richard ...
Artisan Embroidery: Izziyana Suhaimi
Combining a variety of mediums within a work is definitely an artistic trend of late, but none is quite as striking as Singapore-based Izziyana Suhaimi‘s embroidered illustrations and ...
Artisan Embroidery: Richard Saja and Historically Inaccurate Decorative Arts
In this series we set out to explore modern embroidery and celebrate stitchers and artists developing the craft, and helping to make it be taken more seriously. One artist, however, is turning it ...
Artisan Embroidery: Maria Aparicio Puentes
In our last artisan embroidery article we explored the work of Rosalind Wyatt, who stitches stories into personal textiles to add new life to a garment and add a further dimension to it. Our next ...