PASSEMENTERIE WORKSHOP AT CRAFT IN THE BAY

Looking ahead to February [anything to forget the dark, dank doom that is January], I will be teaching a woven passementerie workshop at Craft In Bay Cardiff, 5-6 Feb. So come and learn a new skill, but you better get your clogs on as there are only a couple of spaces left. The workshop is being run in conjunction with The Warp And Weft exhibition, 8 Jan-20 Feb, which is showing at the same venue. 

This exhibition explores contemporary woven textiles and features such weave deities as Ann Sutton and Peter Collingwood. The exhibition was curated by Laura Thomas, who has recently set up The Warp and Weft Blog- a must for anyone of the weave persuasion.

Maelstrom by Lucy McMullen
one of the exhibits in Warp and Weft.

MARY'S LIVING AND GIVING SHOP

Mary Portas will be opening her 3rd shop for Save The Children in London's chi-chi Primrose Hill. Once again Jessica Light Trims and Tassels have donated products along with other designers such as Nina Campbell. The doors open on Saturday 18th December at 11am for mince pies and designer bargains not to be missed.

Two one off lampshades we have donated.

MARYS LIVING AND GIVING SHOP FOR SAVE THE CHILDREN

109 Regents Park Road, Primrose Hill, London NW1 8UR.

CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS

Christmas is coming

The goose is getting fat

Please put a penny

In the passementier's hat

After all those bottles of sherry won't buy themselves

And deck the halls with our hand-made couture gewgaws.Availble to order from www.bouf.com or Jessica Light.

Left to right,
Turk's Head Tassel £6.50, Old Gold Tassel £5.50, Pleated Bauble £7.00

TENT LONDON 2010

For 4 days in September The Truman Brewery in Brick Lane became the venue for the must see show of The London design Festival. TentLondon [only 4 years old]gathered together an exciting and eclectic mix of exhibitors. From lights made from scurrying rats [they were dead]to a giant Knitting Nancy, the range of textiles, furniture, ceramics, lighting and interior products was awe inspiring. With queues around the block to get in, Tent had more buzz than a beehive.

I kept expecting the soup dragon to appear from
Tomomi Sayuda's weird and wonderful light.

Ben Murdock's eccentric ceramics

  

Hand-blown glass jewels from Curiousa & Curiousa

Above  Zoe Murphy's  bright and playful stand.
Right, Miss Margate herself having a ponder.

Everyone could have a go. Set up by Superblue

The giant Knitting Nancy.

Original Little Bird's decorative
surreal prints

Part of Lizzie Mary Cullen's live
on site drawing

The rats might have pulled the crowds, but I liked
Alex Randall's leg light

Penelope Jordan in front of her 3D bespoke textiles

A witty take on identity necklaces by
Product Of Your Environment

Mini Modern's department store

You can have hours of fun playing with
Mimelight's  colour combinations 

Jessica Light Trims and Tassels had a fantastic show. Our new collections were received really well with half our stand all ready gone to press both here in the U.K and America. We also had a couple of the big guns in the interiors market wanting us  to design trimmings ranges for them.

The light reflective outsized trims

My stand

Big thank you to everyone who visited my stand.