Month: August 2021
Eppie Thompson
Eppie Thompson of The Fabled Thread designs tapestry and embroidery kits with storytelling at their core. Their tapestry kits enable you to create big, bold and beautiful cushions or joyful Christmas stockings inspired by the Just So stories by Rudyard Kipling. The luxury tapestry kits combine high-quality materials and beautiful colour combinations, resulting in an […]
Mindful Threads Company
Mindful Threads Company creates contemporary, positive affirmation needlepoint kits. Each unique design centres on a positive affirmation, that encourages mindfulness both through the art of sewing and after completion of the design. Positive affirmations are quite simply, positive phrases or statements that you repeat to yourself in order to promote positive change. They help change […]
Hannah Bass
Hannah creates urban, contemporary needlepoint kits of city maps from around the globe which can be used for cushions or framed and are perfect for beginners as well as experienced stitchers. Hannah has rediscovered the old fashioned principle of making something herself that is high quality, hand crafted and to be loved for many years. […]
Emily Peacock
Emily is a British needlework designer who works mainly in wool and canvas. Her kits are sold through her website emilypeacock.com, in Liberty of London and in small independent shops around the world. Emily has worked with Fine Cell Work, Rob Ryan and appeared on C4’s cult TV series ‘Kirstie’s Homemade Home’. She has run […]
The Great Tapestry of Scotland – now open in Galashiels
With panels covering every aspect of Scottish history from the formation of the landscape itself, the finished article also draws on the lives of ordinary people as an ongoing backdrop against which the better known historical moments stand out. We are so proud to have supplied the wool used – all 300 miles of it […]
Beth Russell
Beth Russell first developed her eye for matching colours to wool whilst working at the Royal School of Needlework in London. She formed Designers Forum (now over 20 years ago) and has built an international reputation for her interpretations of William Morris designs. Beth’s adaptations differ from the Morris originals in that they are to […]
Phillipa Turnbull
Based in the English Lake District, designer, tutor, and owner of ‘The Crewel Work Company’, Phillipa Turnbull is a British crewel work specialist. Phillipa’s crewel work combines the designs, colours, stitches, materials and techniques from historic British crewel work. Only the finest materials make up her kits and she goes to great lengths so ensure […]
Jacqui Pearce
Jacqui is an award winning designer who has been at the forefront of the crafting revolution for the last 10 years. With a degree in fashion and business, Jacqui worked in the Fashion industry for many years, until she founded a product consultancy and own her brand ‘Granny Knits’ in 2005, selling supersized knitwear into […]
Fernsby Hall Tapestries (Diana Fernsby)
Flanders Tapestry Collection (Johan Verbruggen)
The Flanders Tapestry Collection was founded in 2014 by Johan Verbruggen. Originally from Belgium, Johan is from a family of textile, lace and embroidery manufacturers. The origin of The Flanders Tapestry Collection can be traced back to 1876 when Johan’s great-great-grandparents founded their lacemaking business in a small city called Lier, near Antwerp, Belgium. Their […]