Couture Embroidered Wallpaper by Claire Coles.My love for embroidery is nothing new, but Claire Coles' extraordinary hand embroidered wallpapers are certainly new to me. Claire graduated from Middlesex University in 2003 with first class honors in Applied Arts. Amongst her first...
Plantable | JAILmake Studio.Plantable is a handmade table by London-based JAILmake Studio (Liam Healy and Jamie Elliott) which will be on show at Designersblock during the upcoming London Design Week. Designed to interact with nature, this table offers a place to...
Embroidery Love.I have a little confession. There was a time when I considered embroidery to be just too traditional, old and boring (insert rolling eyes, pimply face and mouth wide open while chewing bubble gum). You get the picture, right? I was in my...
Interview | Bianca Chang.Sydney based designer and paper artist Bianca Chang creates beautiful, intricate and mind-boggling paper sculptures which I recently noticed popping up all over the place. In fact, you might remember that I blogged about Bianca's work back...
Heritage Cabinet | Boca do Lobo.Top marks for those who remember me blogging about a brilliant limited edition cabinet (“Pixel”) by Portuguese company Boca do Lobo, which was one of the standout pieces for me in Milan this year (see the post in which I featured the...
Stitched Illustrations by Peter Crawley.Peter Crawley is a UK based illustrator who has developed a distinctive style using thread woven through pierced paper. A product designer by day, he creates images of architecture, typography and abstract geometric patterns. Once he has...
Interview | Mark Cawood of Publisher Textiles.Can I just say how excited I am about today's interview? Too, too excited! Please welcome to yellowtrace Mr Mark Cawood, owner and founder of Publisher Textiles which (sadly) remains one of the very few hand-screenprinting studios in...
Talking Textiles: An Initiative Curated by Lidewij Edelkoort | Milan 2011.I am so excited to share with you one of my absolutely favourite Milan moments - Talking Textiles, an initiative curated by Lidewij Edelkoort. Edelkoort is a dutch trend forecaster and curator of design, and for this exhibition she...