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Best Things: Designers I met in India
One of the things I like to do when I travel is to look up people I consider to be colleagues in other cities, hoping to meet with them to chat about what it’s like to do similar kind of work in...
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Mud resist block printing
We’ve just launched our second range of traditionally-made block printed scarves, designed by me, but made the old-fashioned way with wooden blocks and vegetable dyes, in a small printing compound in...
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New in the shop: Block Printed scarves
On my recent teaching trip to Jaipur with Ritchie Ace Camps, I had a couple of days off, and was pleased to put them to VERY good use, because after the success of our last crop of limited edition...
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“Although it’s said a woman’s place is in the home, the influence she has on its appearance is often overlooked”. Ah… um? Please ignore the asinine narration and just enjoy watching beautiful block...
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Making Friday: Old habits and new designs
Whenever I end up in my Think Tank on Making Friday without a proper idea of what I’d like to get done, I seem to do the same thing: I fill up a page with regular brush marks that look like multiple...
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Printing in Holland
In case anyone thinks I’m on holiday in Europe, it is totally not true. The Big Fat Skinny Europe Tour is turning out to be incredibly hard work! But hard work in interesting, beautiful places is worth...
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Workshop: How Pattern Works
I’m super excited to announce that all through June, I’ll be teaching a four-part hands-on course in print & pattern called HOW PATTERN WORKS. Classes will be held over four weeks in the Skinny...
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July workshops
Our June workshops are going so well that we’ve decided to offer a July series of my four-part hands-on course in print & pattern called HOW PATTERN WORKS. Classes will be held over four weeks in...
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Making Friday: snakes alive!
Today’s Making Friday news may give you a baffling glimpse into my psyche, but it’s pretty good for a giggle anyway, so here goes: It starts with me arriving at the Think Tank and, as usual, not quite...
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India with Expedition Curiosity
Bev Missing is the founder of body and bath product company Rain Africa, and is now the organising force behind Expedition Curiosity – her travel company specialising in immersive and authentic...
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