Braids

Airbnb Experience – Passementerie Studio Visit

Braids & Buttons and Rosettes & Courses & Design & Fringes & Heritage & Inspiration & Looms & Ropes and Cords & Studio visit & Tassels & Tie Backs & workshop, 15th July 2019

Braid on the loom - Airbnb studio visit experience

As self-care becomes a bigger, more natural part of our lives, the trend for taking up classes and hobbies that allow us to express our creativity is growing.

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

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.

Snowdrop Inspiration – Tasselled braid

Braids & Inspiration & Tassels, 7th February 2017

These beautiful snowdrops inspired me to make a simple tasselled braid

Replacement Fringe for Fonthill Pattern Chairs

Braids & Colour Matching & Fringes & Heritage & Restoration / Reproduction, 20th January 2017

Creating replacement trimmings for antique furniture is always more of a technical challenge than a design one as it is about trying to get as close to the original as possible.