Craft : Helen Carter – secret lentil clothing

  Oh wow, I can just see myself with a whole wardrobe from Secret Lentil – textured, layered, whimsical and a bit post-punk. Sooo me, I luurv them! I would die to have the amanitas folkadelia in my wardrobe. I mean seriously, who wouldn’t want to have...

Textile Design : Surface Art

  Moyra Jones is Scottish born but moved to Australia in 1989, and is now based in Adelaide, as the owner-designer of Surface Art, and affiliated clothing company Essaye.   After she arrived in Australia, Moyra worked for another company printing clothing...

Craft : Michelle Snowdon – wooldancer

  I have known Michelle for a VERY long time. We first met at university way back in 1992, when she was studying Photography and I was studying Jewellery (and oh the stories I could tell!… but I won’t, ‘cos she’ll get me back) Michelle...

Textiles : Kelly Swallow – upholstery

Kelly Swallow is an Irish designer, who has always loved working with textiles in her spare time. Since she was a child, she has been interested in sewing and fabric. “We had my grandmothers really old manual sewing machine in our house which was perfect for...

Textiles : Ink & Spindle – hand-printed fabric

Ink & Spindle are designers and printers Tegan Rose and Lara Cameron, and are no strangers to many of us in the craft/design biz in Australia – they have been around since 2008 showing off their fabulous hand-printed textiles. I first came across their blog...