Category: Design@HEART Makers
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A slightly less cool way of nailing your life long ambition
This week, Paula Perrins of Wychbury Designs takes over the blog to tell us about her textiles business and her passion for stitching. When I was young I desperately wanted to be like the fashion designer Jean Muir, with red hair, black clothes and designing things for a living, I suppose I sort of nailed…
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Old Linen and Cups of Tea Round at Emma’s!
In our latest blog-takeover, Emma Mears explains how she swapped a teaching job for a full time career in textile art. I began making and creating eight years ago, when I left my career in teaching. I enrolled on several short courses, in felting, drawing and painting, embroidery and textiles and ceramics and basically, never…