Remnants of wallpaper that can be purchased for small projects. Sold for £1 per linear 10cm with the standard width of 70cm. This rolls is 735cm long (the full roll is 10m).
This colourful linen velvet is an ususual and lustrous fabric, woven in the Netherlands and printed in Glasgow using reactive dyes, and sewn in Whitstable. The cushion pad is made in the UK.
Lizard orchid – Himantoglossum hircinum Goat-like and with tongues like straps (or so it is described by its Latin name), the lizard orchid has long lip petals which are spiralled and dotted with pink or purple in the centre. It is a tall plant which despite its exuberant form, hides in plain site. Rare in the UK, it thrives on certain golf courses and dunes, where the tiny seeds are carried on the golfers’ shoes.
This design is part of The Beatrice Edit. With exquisite botanical detail, it builds upon the growing passion in interiors for honouring the natural world. Furthermore, for every roll of wallpaper sold, 100m2 of critical wild habitat is preserved through World Land Trust. Ten percent of profits will also go to support Rebuilding Together in Ukraine.
This colourful linen velvet is an ususual and lustrous fabric, woven in the Netherlands and printed in Glasgow using reactive dyes, and sewn in Whitstable. The cushion pad is made in the UK.
This medium scale print celebrates the migratory Monarch butterfly whose larval food-plants, the milkweeds, have been depleted to critically low levels by herbicides. The population of monarchs that spends its summers in the Carolinas, undertakes an incredible multi-generational migration every year to forests in Mexico where they overwinter. Plants like echinacea provide them with rich sources of nectar for this journey. As well as Echinacea purpurea, the most common of the coneflowers, this design features Echinacea leavigata, an endangered coneflower native to North Carolina.
(All colours are available on both basecloths and also at both scales, although we may not offer that specific sample. If your combo is not available, we suggest ordering the colour you want to get the process started.)
Paisley Paramecium is a textile and wallpaper design celebrating the web of micro-organisms that forms the base of the pyramid of all life. The inspiration for this design was a play on the traditional tear-drop shape of the classic paisley motif resembling a unicellular organism called a paramecium. The species in this design are aquatic, including many free-floating plankton upon whom the health of all marine creatures depends. Phytoplankton are also of serious conservation concern – warming oceans have caused population declines of 40% since 1950. Change is desperately needed in how we perceive our interconnectedness within, and dependence upon, the web of life. As well as evoking droplets of water, as well as using the conventions of the paisley design, it is also reminiscent of stitching and lace, as the fabric of nature is fragile and intricately interwoven and embellished. The colouration is quite free, and can be further expanded upon in the future, as many of these species are really transparent.
To learn more about the design, please check out the blog post.
The Carolina Tree of Life collection celebrates the natural history of the Carolinas in the American South, where biologist and designer Susy Paisley spent much of her childhood. Carolina Posies is a lush, hand-drawn design which celebrates wild species of the Southern States of the Carolinas. The designer is a conservation biologist who grew up in this beautiful area. The rich colours and graphic details are matched by the interest of the many extraordinary species depicted, including monarch butterflies and their larval food-plants, milkweed, Carolina Reaper chilli peppers, devil’s paintbrush, pine barren gentian, grass of Parnassus and carnivorous plants. It is a detailed botanical with an enchanting meandering feel.
Companion prints include Carolina Tree of Life and Carolina Monarchs, featuring details from this larger scale design.
Venus flower – Dionaea muscipula Venus fly traps are found in bogs which are low in the nutrients vital to plants like nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus. These ingenious plants solve this problem by preying on beetles and spiders. (Flies are actually rarely consumed.) Their traps snap shut in less than 0.1 seconds. This most famous of all carnivorous plants described by Charles Darwin as “one of the most wonderful in the world” is native to the Carolinas in a small area around Wilmington. The blooms are rare, delicate and beautiful.
(NOTE: We are changing the pattern depicted here to make a flower like circular rotation of the smaller motif [as depicted in the cream photo] – will update the photos soon)
This design is part of The Beatrice Edit. With exquisite botanical detail, it builds upon the growing passion in interiors for honouring the natural world. Furthermore, for every roll of wallpaper sold, 100m2 of critical wild habitat is preserved through World Land Trust. Ten percent of profits will also go to support Rebuilding Together in Ukraine.
The Madidi Hummingbirds design is a tribute to the incredible diversity of Andean hummingbirds, of which there are 140 different species. This design features Andean Hillstars, Great Sapphirewings, and Giant Hummingbirds. These super-heroic little birds can fly at speeds which, relative to body length, are greater than any other vertebrate, with wing-speeds of over 80 beats per second. They also serve as specific pollinators for many flowers such as those in the Puya genus. The bases of these bromeliads are important bear foods and many have beautiful turquoise flowers. They also have natural antifreeze and some of the longest flower spikes in the world such as Puya raymondi, known as Queen of the Andes, the spherical plant bases and spikes depicted in this design. This plant grows to 15m (50ft) tall with 30,000 individual flowers when it blooms, which is once every one hundred years!
The contemporary design has quite an elegant structured style and a limited palate based around the blues and greens of the Puya flowers. With exquisite botanical detail, it builds upon the current passion in interiors for honouring the natural world. Furthermore, for every roll of wallpaper sold, 100m2 of critical wild habitat is preserved through World Land Trust.
