Alice kettle

Several decades on from her primary school days, hand weaver and textile designer Llio James still remembers one particular lesson. She grew up in the small village of Talybont, close to Aberystwyth,

Knitwear designer, Anna Wheeler

Bethany Hughes grew up in a household where making art was woven into everyday life. “My artist mother taught me to draw, paint, embroider and much more,” she recalls, describing a childhood where cre

Exaggerating her beetling monobrow and wispy dark moustache in self-portraits, the artist Frida Kahlo was a female force to be reckoned with, unafraid to pour her heart onto the canvas. Only last autu

Why homeowners are rediscovering the traditional practice of decorating with tapestries

It’s probable that there isn’t anyone else in England making silk flowers in quite the same way Anne Tomlin does. Inspired by her garden and the chalk meadows near her West Sussex home, she makes life