- Barron & Larcher
- blcokcutting
- blockprint
- Block printing
- Colour
- craft
- Design
- design theory
- Ditchling
- Ditchling Museum of Art and Design
- Dora Fabrics
- drawing
- Edward Johnstone
- Enid Marx
- eric gill
- Ethel Mairet
- Fabric
- Factory
- factory production
- Foraging
- handmade
- handprinted
- Interiors
- Ivo prints
- linno
- Local
- local pattern
- modernism
- Modernism in Retreat
- Natural dye
- natural dyes
- original
- Orla Kiely
- pattern
- printing
- production
- repeat
- reproduction
- screenprint
- Seasonal
- South Downs
- Stepanova
- Sussex
- textile
- Textiles
- virginiawhitecollection
- Walter Benjamin
- wild colour
- Workshop
- Slow Beauty
David Boyle
David Boyle9:39 pmNovember 11th, 2019Slow Beauty
Read moreI’ve always been a bit of a hippie – I worked for the new economics foundation for many years where our...
11th November 20190 - Learning how to block print with natural dyes
David Boyle
David Boyle11:59 pmAugust 11th, 2019Learning how to block print with natural dyes
Read moreThis is something I’ve been fascinated by for a very long time and over the years pieces of the jigsaw...
- Coming out as Sarah Burns Patterns
David Boyle
David Boyle4:07 pmJuly 12th, 2019Coming out as Sarah Burns Patterns
Read moreI’ve called my textile dyeing & printing business Dora Fabrics since I graduated from Chelsea – somehow it felt safer to...
- Celebrating Barron and Larcher – textile designers
David Boyle
David Boyle9:11 pmNovember 25th, 2018Celebrating Barron and Larcher – textile designers
Read moreThis is an extract of a longer talk I gave at the Steyning Bookshop on the 15th November 2018 to celebrate...
- Printing with resists & indigo dyeing
David Boyle
David Boyle5:49 pmJune 14th, 2018Printing with resists & indigo dyeing
Read moreI’ve always loved working in negative – that’s the printer in me. When you cut a lino block you remove the...
- How a design goes from hand block print to factory screen print…
David Boyle
David Boyle2:42 pmMarch 9th, 2018How a design goes from hand block print to factory screen print…
Read moreMy wood block ‘Honoria’ for the Virginia White Collection was in this months ‘House and Garden’ and it reminded me that...
- Elizabether Friedlander – designing against the odds
David Boyle
David Boyle1:16 pmJanuary 16th, 2018Elizabether Friedlander – designing against the odds
Read moreBy lovely chance (I was just dropping off some more tea towels and pouches at the shop), Alice and I got...
- Rangoli – sacred patternmaking
David Boyle
David Boyle9:30 pmAugust 6th, 2017Rangoli – sacred patternmaking
Read moreI saw my first rangoli on the steps of the Bank of India – an intricate chalky pattern half washed away...
- Crafted in the Factory
David Boyle
David Boyle1:03 pmOctober 2nd, 2019Crafted in the Factory
Read moreIt was a lovely end to the week on Friday when Chris printed my Sompting design for the Virginia White Collection...