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Cactus Mexicanos Cushion in Papaya
This design is the culmination of several years Dr Susy Paisley spent living in, and besotted with, Mexico. It celebrates the incredible diversity of Mexican cacti. Mexico is one of the world's centre of endemism for this group of plants, and includes marvels like the Creeping Devil, a cactus in this design which actually moves across the desert floor! Cacti are enjoying a new popularity, but globally, one out of three cacti is in need of conservation attention. The design includes the Chisos Mountain hedgehog cactus, hallucinogenic Peyote, a critically endangered dragonfruit, which forms the long tendrils in the design, and lesser long-nosed bat (an essential pollinator for cacti) and the iconic saguaro and crested saguaro cacti.
Madidi Midnight Cushion
The Andean spectacled bear, a mysterious and endangered species and inspiration for Paddington Bear, was the focus of my years of study in the Andean cloud forest of Bolivia's Madidi National Park. During long periods spent alone for my research, I became obsessed with the intricate patterns and colour around me. Lichens, thin-lipped frogs, hummingbirds and toucans, along with my bears, were the subjects of my detailed drawings, and have formed the basis of this design. The composition of the design itself was inspired by a Josef Frank design from 1938 called Anakreon. His design was based on a 3,500-year-old fresco, discovered by a friend of Frank's, from the palace in Knossos on Crete.
Double-sided with a hidden zip.
Carolina Posies Cushion in Cornbread
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 colors 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. Carolina Posies is a detailed botanical with an enchanting meandering feel, part of a growing passion in interiors for honouring the natural world. Double-sided with a hidden zip.
Lewa and Mercia Bees Cushion
Mercia Bees in Noon Blue and Lewa Union in Blue - the two sides are different.
Double-sided with a hidden zip.
Carolina Posies Cushion in Jade
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 colors 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. Carolina Posies is a detailed botanical with an enchanting meandering feel, part of a growing passion in interiors for honouring the natural world. Double-sided with a hidden zip.
Hummingbirds Cushion in Oxblood
Madidi Hummingbirds tells the story of High Andean Hummingbirds and the strange family of Puya with its beautiful turquoise flowers.
Hummingbirds Cushion in Forest
Madidi Hummingbirds tells the story of High Andean Hummingbirds and the strange family of Puya with its beautiful turquoise flowers.
Mercia Bees Cushion in Deep Blue
Mercia Bees is a smaller scale print in the English Mercia collection, with a 6'' horizontal half drop repeat. It features the short-haired bumblebee, a species driven to extinction in England, but recently reintroduced into specially planted flower-rich meadows in the region of Dungeness. The bees are foraging on clover, and pheasant's eye, a rare wildflower introduced to the UK in Roman times.
Carolina Monarch Cushion in Prunus
Carolina monarchs tell of the monarch butterfly and milkweed, its larval foodplant. It also has echinacea, both the common coneflower, Echinacea purpurea, and Echinacea laevigata, and endangered coneflower limited to a few sites in and around the Carolinas. Double-sided with a hidden zip.
Mercia Vines Silk Wrap
An elegant double sided silk wrap measuring 50 cm wide and 200 cm long. It is digitally printed using environmentally-friendly process on 35 g per m2 weight Habotai silk. Lovely drape and versatile styling. Dry cleaning is recommended.
A two-tone looping and whimsical design that celebrates English species of conservation interest.
Carolina Parakeet Silk Wrap
An elegant double sided silk wrap measuring 50 cm wide and 200 cm long. It is digitally printed using environmentally-friendly process on 35 g per m2 weight Habotai silk. Lovely drape and versatile styling. Dry cleaning is recommended.
Celebrating iconic species and conservation stories from the Carolinas.
Madidi Clouds Silk Wrap
An elegant double sided silk wrap measuring 50 cm wide and 200 cm long. It is digitally printed using environmentally-friendly process on 35 g per m2 weight Habotai silk. Lovely drape and versatile styling. Dry cleaning is recommended.
Lewa Union Silk Wrap
An elegant double sided silk wrap measuring 50 cm wide and 200 cm long. It is digitally printed using environmentally-friendly process on 35 g per m2 weight Habotai silk. Lovely drape and versatile styling. Dry cleaning is recommended.
Lewa Union is an African design celebrating unusual species, ants and termites - tiny superheroes - and the species that depend on them.
Cactus Mexicanos Silk Wrap
An elegant double sided silk wrap measuring 50 cm wide and 200 cm long. It is digitally printed using environmentally-friendly process on 35 g per m2 weight Habotai silk. Dry cleaning is recommended.
This Cactus Mexicanos design tells the story of the incredible diversity of cacti in Mexico, a real centre of endemism for this group of plants. These unusual forms give the design a contemporary feel, and the pops of magenta, a common flower colour for this group, give great vibrancy to the design.
Lovely drape and versatile styling.
Lewa Union Wallpaper
This design is called Lewa Union. It’s a tribute to Lewa Downs in Kenya and some of its less-known creatures like aardwolves, pangolins and Jackson’s hornbills and their complex relationships with tiny super heroic insects like ants and termites. Other design elements include the moon setting over Mount Kenya, whistling thorn acacia, lucky bean trees and what is probably the first-ever depiction of a naked mole rat colony in a textile or wallpaper design.
This is a stand alone print but looks great with Madidi Hummingbirds and Mercia Bees.
Carolina Monarch Wallpaper
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.
Companion prints include Carolina Parakeets and Carolina Posies.
Carolina Posies Wallpaper
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 colors and graphic details are matched by the interest of the many extraordinary species depicted, including monarch butterflies and their larval foodplants, 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 fo Life and Carolina Monarchs,
featuring details from this larger scale design.
Mercia Vines Wallpaper
The English Mercia collection is Susy Paisley's tribute to one of the greatest
conservation parables ever written, The Lorax by Dr Seuss. The species in
the design are based on real world English equivalents of the imaginary
species that feature in the Lorax story – inhabiting the region of the ancient
kingdom of Mercia. The humming fish are represented by great crested
newts, the precious truffula trees are clover flowers whilst the playful
barballoots are the red squirrels. The bees which also feature in a
companion print are short-haired bumblebees – a wonderful conservation
success story as they were extinct in the UK but acres of flower-rich
meadows were planted in Kent, the bees were reintroduced and are now
thriving. Other flowers include several species of clover, Pheasant’s eye.
crested cowwheat, Stinking iris, whorled millifoil, Carthusian pinks, Herb Paris,
wintergreen and blossoms of a rare old English breed a apple.
Companion prints include Mercia Ribbons and Mercia bees, featuring
details from this larger scale design.
Carolina Tree of Life Parakeets Wallpaper
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. This design inspiration comes from free-flowing
17th Century tree of life prints. It depicts flora and fauna of the region
including: the extinct Carolina parakeet feeding on cockleburrs, and the
Monarch butterfly (whose milkweed dependent migratory life cycle is critically
endangered). Also present are carnivorous native plants such as the Venus
flytrap and the Mountain Sweet pitcher plant and wildflowers like the Devil’s
paintbrush, Grass of Parnassus and Gray’s lily. Flying creatures include a
Yellow-bellied sapsucker, a Luna moth and a Painted bunting. The black-
chinned red salamander is native to the southern Appalachians, which
have the greatest diversity of salamanders in the world.
Companion prints include Carolina Posies and Carolina Monarchs,
featuring details from this larger scale design. 
Cactus Mexicanos Wallpaper
Collection: Cactus Mexicanos Product Code: 33 Roll dimensions: 70cm x 10m (27.6in x 10.9yards) Area: 7sq.m (8.4 sq.yards) Pattern repeat: 46.7cm (18.4in) Half Drop Wallpaper: The designs are printed on Uncoated Non-woven 147gsm. Some darker colourways are also available on … Read More
Cactus Mexicanos Linen
Cactus Mexicanos tells the story of the incredible diversity of cacti in Mexico, a real centre of endemism for this group of plants. These unusual forms give the design a contemporary feel, and the pops of magenta, a common flower … Read More
Rabb’s fringe-limbed tree frog silk scarf
A delicate and detailed design with hand-drawn illustrations on slate grey with flashes of magenta, burgundy, greens and yellows. It is of an elegant neckerchief size: 60cm2.
This vibrant silk scarf commemorates the Rabb's fringe-limbed tree frog and species with which it was found in the Valle de San Anton of Panama. This extraordinary species, which was declared extinct on September 26, 2016, could sail through the air, change colours, and had an incredible way of providing snacks for its tadpoles. To learn more about this species read my blogpost.
For every scarf purchased, £20 goes to support the Amphibian Survival Alliance.
Carolina Monarch Linen
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.
Mercia Bees Linen
Mercia Bees is a smaller scale print in the English Mercia collection, with a 6'' horizontal half drop repeat. It features the short-haired bumblebee, a species driven to extinction in England, but recently reintroduced into specially planted flower-rich meadows in the region of Dungeness. The bees are foraging on clover, and pheasant's eye, a rare wildflower introduced to the UK in Roman times.