Monday 30 January 2012

Burberry Prorsum - Spring/ Summer 2012

Hot on the fashion heels of our Africa Rich being featured in the Irish Times Saturday Magazine - a wonderful piece which ennobled the African design Holland Wax print textile - I disovered that for S/S 2012, Burberry Porsum had also sent exuberant prints down their catwalk.  You may recognise and identify similar prints from our pillows from the previous year and our current work  : )  I am in love with their ethnic raffia clutches!!!!!!!!

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Our hugely popular Mali Circles print pillow from Spring 2011
 And our Gold laced Honeycomb from spring 2011

Africa-rich-patchwork-floor-pillow-ooak                            Orange-paisley-large-throw-cushion
 


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Thursday 19 January 2012

I am LOVE

SisterBatik
~ Handmade ~

SisterBatik One Of A Kind pillow cover - our own creative patchwork design on the front using (6 different) mixed batik and the addition of simple traveller hand embroidery in colourful thread. Love embellished with claret velvet ribbon.  Hot Pink Zebra batik print on the back.

Using genuine Dutch wax print batik - 100% crisp cotton.

The exuberance of these prints add unique character and warmth to any living space.

Oblong - 12" x 20". Envelope enclosure. Professionally serged/ overlocked and additional inside cotton lining.

Super comfortable and huggable!!

Pillow insert is not included. These can easily be obtained at most home stores.

Saturday 14 January 2012

Cold enough to split stones @ The National Gallery London

An art escape


If I should go missing on any given day, you will often find me (if not painting, then) at an art gallery.  It is my escape, where I make sense, where I inhale and from where I return : )

I spent an hour watching an artist and copyist, repeat a work of art hung in the National Gallery in London.  It escaped me to note the title and artist of the original work, because I was engrossed with the present artist' practise of repeating the work.  With any act of creation, there is an intensity between the subject and the creator.  And I suppose, I stood just observing the marvel of artistic intensity........

I followed this by attending a lecture on Impressionist Snow Scenes at the gallery.  The title of the blog post is from a quote by a journalist on witnessing the artist Claude Monet painting en plein air in the depths of winter to capture a snow scene.  Bundled under three heavy coats and barely able to feel his own hands.

Impressionist oil paintings may appear mild through popularisation, but at the time they were the avant garde, critiqued as "lazy and slapdash", but what they were giving was a sense of the ephemera and not meticulous depiction. We are not only to observe but to sense.  That is essentially what art, in its forms, is intended to motivate.


 Aphorism by Friedrich Nietzsch on art and artists from his book Human, All too Human, I found via Red.Yellow.Blue

Thursday 12 January 2012

Marrakech Pillow cover


Stunning SisterBatik One Of A Kind pillow cover - our own creative patchwork design on the front using mixed batik and using Hot Pink Zebra batik print on the back. Using genuine Dutch wax print batik - 100% crisp cotton.

The exuberance of these prints add unique character and warmth to any living space or bedroom.

Oblong - 12" x 18" . Envelope enclosure and additional inside lining for super quality. Professionally serged/ overlocked.

Pillow insert is not included.

Monday 2 January 2012

2012 SisterBatik New Pillows

SisterBatik
Made in England
~ Handmade ~




Tribal Patchwork and Hand embroidered Pillow.                          

SisterBatik One Of A Kind pillow cover.  Creative patchwork design on the front using a mix of different batik prints and the addition of hand embroidery in the Hmong tribal style using colourful thread.

Using genuine Dutch wax print batik - 100% crisp cotton.

Oblong - 12" x 20". Concealed violet zip along base. Professionally serged / overlocked.  Inner neutral cotton lining.  Blue wash Bindi batik print on the back.  Each pillow cover is individually made and unique.


Pillow insert is not included.


Tribal Patchwork and Hand embroidered Pillow.                          

SisterBatik One Of A Kind pillow cover.  Creative patchwork design on the front using a mix of different batik prints and the addition of hand embroidery in the Hmong tribal style using colourful thread.

Using genuine Dutch wax print batik - 100% crisp cotton.

Square - 16" x 16". Envelope Enclosure. Professionally serged / overlocked.  Inner neutral cotton lining. Hot pink zebra batik print back.  Each pillow cover is individually made and unique.

Pillow insert is not included.

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The exuberance of batik prints add a touch of character and liven up any space. Using genuine Dutch wax print batik - 100% cotton.
In a popular Teal Peacock Batik Print.

Single square pillow cover - 16" x 16". Envelope enclosure. Professionally serged/ overlocked.  Inner cotton lining.

Pillow insert is not included.

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