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Tiny Acorns to Terrific Tassels! Passementerie Workshop

Buttons and Rosettes & Courses & Ropes and Cords & Tassels & workshop, 10th March 2018

Learn how to make Passementerie in a weekend

Gimp thread machine

Braids & Heritage & Restoration / Reproduction & Traditional, 22nd May 2018

Until now using gimp has always meant having to buy in large quantities – with very high costs

Country Life – Living National Treasure

Braids & Buttons and Rosettes & Colour Matching & Contemporary & Fringes & Heritage & Ropes and Cords & Tassels & Tie Backs, 25th October 2017

Country Life magazine article on the endangered craft of Passementerie

Marchmont House – Acorn Braid

4 Poster Bed & Braids & Design, 5th September 2017

A narrow braid incorporating naturalistic acorn drops for Marchmont House

Announcing a New Course – Learn how to make Passementerie

Buttons and Rosettes & Courses & Tassels, 31st July 2017

Why not learn a new skill in a weekend?

Tassels for a Lutyens Concentric Hoop Light Fitting

Colour Matching & Lighting & Tassels, 15th June 2017

I have recently completed quite a large project for Candia Lutyens. It is a light fitting to Edwin Lutyen’s original design, including the intricate chequer board design – but updated to include LED light bulbs.

Lutyens Cardinal Hat Lights – The Ned Hotel

Design & Heritage & Restoration / Reproduction & Tassels, 31st May 2017

I am delighted to announce that my tassels have been used on Cardinal Hat Lights in the Lutyens Grill in the new Ned Hotel in London

Aesthetic Movement chair – analysis of braid for V&A Museum

Braids & Design & Heritage & Restoration / Reproduction, 30th May 2017

I was recently asked by Max Donnelly, Curator of Nineteenth-Century Furniture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, to analyse the braid on an Aesthetic Movement chair, in a private collection, to document how it was made.

Large Buttons with Tassels for Bolster Cushions on Day Bed

Buttons and Rosettes & Colour Matching & Tassels,

These extra large buttons with tassels were colour matched exactly to the bolster cushions on a day bed.

Snowdrop Inspiration – Tasselled braid

Braids & Inspiration & Tassels, 7th February 2017

These beautiful snowdrops inspired me to make a simple tasselled braid