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Valentine's Day 1999 // The new valentine collection with nineties inspired...

Every Autumn we create new valentine deigns for our clients, our non-exclusive collection and our fabric shops. This year we were influenced by the nostalgic nineties and made a series of new designs...

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Behind the scenes: The logo design process

We love making logos! And this year we’ve made a whole bunch of fun logo designs. For a new Russian baby nursery textiles company, for a sing and sing writer, an education business. And at the moment...

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Come join us for another creative new year // Happy 2024!

Welcome to 2024! The 13th year of our studio. How time flies, it’s a little mad thinking back. All the projects we worked on, the vast amount of pattern designs we created for so many people all over...

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The Lookbook: Tokyo Morning Lookbook // Japandi inspired print designs...

Travel is such a beautiful inspiration and our print designs are often inspired by the beauties of the world. Different cultures, colors, food. Did you know the sun shines differently wherever you go...

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Finished Work: U bird - Travel Podcast Logo Design

We love making logos. Combining type & image and coming up with a strong visual identity is a wonderful process to work through. When we get plan a logo design job we usually take an extra week to...

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Customers Spotlight: Sierra Creek Studio // Handmade Bags

Sierra Creek Studio was developed by Deb Barbour as a post-retirement design workshop. And every since she's been creating beautiful bags with our fabrics. Time for a little feature to show her...

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Happy International Women’s Day

As a female business owner I've crossed paths with so many amazing women the past 13 years. We are proud to say the majority of our collabs is with Woman lead businesses. Role models who are breaking...

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The Lookbook: Summer Meadow

This year we launched 13 lookbooks already. But we completely forgot to mention them here n the blog. Some collections are made, inspired by travels, others are inspired by nature, or every day life....

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All you need to know about licensing print designs // A little talk about the...

We’re already a couple of weeks into the new year and as we are finishing up some awesome new projects we made a bunch of custom designs for, it is time to plan and schedule our new exclusive design...

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New Summer Romance Collection - Available at Carriage House Printery - Print...

For 2 years now we've been working with Carriage House Printery. A family-run company that prints fabric on demand. The past couple of months we've been growing our CHP portfolio, and we're adding new...

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Celebrating World Autism Awareness Day

Leaving this one here to share. We are celebrating world autism awareness day today and celebrating all of you ♥️ Life can be hard when you don't feel you belong. It's exhausting trying to fit in. Just...

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Customer Spotlight: Pawsome Paws seamless pattern designs for dog accessories

It’s been years since we started working with Pawesome Paws. This beautiful business was then a one-human handmade business and over the years they turned out to be a hit on the UK dog accessory...

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The Lookbook - Pinky Blossom / Where Seventies meets Nineties / Flowers for...

We have sent out four new lookbooks to our insiders last week. If you're signed up to our newsletter you might have seen them already. It's time to show them to you on the blog too. We created 4 new...

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Customer Spotlight: Kiki & Lulu / Joyful print designs for little ones

A new season a new print! Every season Kiki & Lulu has another Little Smilemakers design in their collection. This spring they launched a design that was based on one of our all-time best-selling...

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Finished work: Days of Gold - Day Care in the Woods - Logo Design

Rainbows & Sprinkles has been one of our long term clients. We created hundreds of prints for Lucy’s sportswear brand. Last year we created a logo for her basic line of sports pieces before she...

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The Lookbook - The Simple Patriot / Celebrating the 4th of July in modern...

Meet out new minimalist retro style Patriotic designs. Over the years we created many patriot prints. American inspired designs in red and blues, perfect for National Holidays like the 4th of July....

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The Lookbook - Midnight Kitty / Print designs for cat lovers

Over the years we’ve been working together with tons of dog accessory businesses all over the globe. We created many dog designs but cats weren’t as represented in our portfolio that often. Probably...

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Pride designs - Queer inspired designs / Free for Commercial usages

Did you know our pride designs are free to use commercially? We make new designs around pride month each year. And all designs are available for licensing, completely free for commercial and personal...

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Typographic Dog Quotes - New Graphic Designs for The Paws

We've been working with The Paws for a couple of years already, and we made tons of surface pattern designs for their dog accessory range. This week we worked on some typography designs for a new range...

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Customer Spotlight: Buckle Me Baby - Print designs for PJs

Over the years we worked with a couple of trailblazers but when we got an email from Dahlia explaining what kind of product she created we got so excited to jump in and create some prints for her....

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Re-fresh your home with new wallpaper / Go for dopamine maximalist or choose...

You might know we sell fabric through Spoonflower. But did you know when Spoonflower was taken over last year the company's gotten more serious about wallpaper? There are more options to choose from...

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The Lookbook - Aztec & Mudcloth / Abstract geometric print designs

Sometimes a client inspires us to do an entire collection. I traveled to Mexico 5 years ago already and created some Mexican traditional textile inspired designs after visiting this wonderful colorful...

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The Big Archive Clean-Out Sale / License seamless designs for only €35 per...

With over 34.000 designs and a bunch just waiting to be loved we needed a big spring clean! We are preparing to add new designs into our sale section and this Friday the first designs will be...

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The Big Archive Summer Sale is live! License our designs for €34 all summer long

Enjoy our first collection of discounted designs! View our Dropbox folder or join our Pinterest Page for the full collection of designs & stay in the loop for our weekly new batches of designs...

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Finished Work: Thea Fashion for Kids / Boys Summer collection

We have some beautiful new pieces for Thea Fashion to show you. We've been working with Angela for a couple of years. Before the pandamic she already licensed designs of ours. Every month she selects...

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