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  • Slow Beauty
    David Boyle9:39 pmNovember 11th, 2019
    Naturally dyed silk in Guy Goodfellow window

    Slow Beauty

    I’ve always been a bit of a hippie – I worked for the new economics foundation for many years where our...

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  • Learning how to block print with natural dyes
    David Boyle11:59 pmAugust 11th, 2019
    Printing with iron

    Learning how to block print with natural dyes

      This is something I’ve been fascinated by for a very long time and over the years pieces of the jigsaw...

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  • Coming out as Sarah Burns Patterns
    David Boyle4:07 pmJuly 12th, 2019
    printing in the factory

    Coming out as Sarah Burns Patterns

    I’ve called my textile dyeing & printing business Dora Fabrics since I graduated from Chelsea – somehow it felt safer to...

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  • Celebrating Barron and Larcher – textile designers
    David Boyle9:11 pmNovember 25th, 2018
    wool

    Celebrating Barron and Larcher – textile designers

    This is an extract of a longer talk I gave at the Steyning Bookshop on the 15th November 2018 to celebrate...

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  • Printing with resists & indigo dyeing
    David Boyle5:49 pmJune 14th, 2018
    wool

    Printing with resists & indigo dyeing

    I’ve always loved working in negative – that’s the printer in me. When you cut a lino block you remove the...

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  • How a design goes from hand block print to factory screen print…
    David Boyle2:42 pmMarch 9th, 2018
    wool

    How a design goes from hand block print to factory screen print…

    My wood block ‘Honoria’ for the Virginia White Collection was in this months ‘House and Garden’ and it reminded me that...

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  • Elizabether Friedlander – designing against the odds
    David Boyle1:16 pmJanuary 16th, 2018
    photo (56)

    Elizabether Friedlander – designing against the odds

    By lovely chance (I was just dropping off some more tea towels and pouches at the shop), Alice and I got...

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  • Rangoli – sacred patternmaking
    David Boyle9:30 pmAugust 6th, 2017
    wool

    Rangoli – sacred patternmaking

    I saw my first rangoli on the steps of the Bank of India – an intricate chalky pattern half washed away...

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  • Crafted in the Factory
    David Boyle1:03 pmOctober 2nd, 2019
    wool

    Crafted in the Factory

    It was a lovely end to the week on Friday when Chris printed my Sompting design for the Virginia White Collection...

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