Conscious Designers are Change Agents!

Conscious Designers are Change Agents!

Did you know that designing is essentially creative problem solving? No matter what you’re designing, clothes, cars, interiors, what’s for dinner, what to wear, or how to keep the dog in … you’re solving a problem creatively. It’s...
Exploring Designer-Artisan Partnerships and Sustainable Fabrics

Exploring Designer-Artisan Partnerships and Sustainable Fabrics

It’s a challenge for sure. We don’t know what we don’t know! In the world of sustainable fashion, designers – like those pictured here – often face the dilemma of finding the right sustainable fabrics for their creations. So when you hear...
Sustainable Fabrics Excite Your Senses – And it’s good for you!

Sustainable Fabrics Excite Your Senses – And it’s good for you!

Some things we simply ‘know’ are right, right? No scientific proof is needed. For us to stop and grin at spring bulbs busting up from the snow, or bask in long, early morning shadows tinged with dawn, just comes naturally! Yet, when science gets a handle...
Women & Handloom – Why do making and wearing it matter?

Women & Handloom – Why do making and wearing it matter?

Reflecting on International Women’s Day, what a fabulous opportunity to honour the women before us, who’ve sacrificially laid the truly sustainable foundations for where we are today. They are the encouragement for us to keep moving forward, together with...
“I wove the Queen’s wedding blanket.”

“I wove the Queen’s wedding blanket.”

Remembering Queen Elizabeth at this time is on the hearts of many. Yet earlier this summer I had the great honour of meeting a woman of the same generation. One with a unique link to the Queen herself. You know what it’s like! When you meet a person who blows...
No Waste November = Eco-friendly Fabric

No Waste November = Eco-friendly Fabric

No Waste November is inspired or provoked by this month’s COP26 event to address Climate Change. And around here at Motif Handmade, that’s about ensuring eco-friendly fabric is as much a part of our norm as possible! COP26 Maybe the opening of COP26 in...

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