Our Designers

Em's Soaps

Em's soaps has been built up gradually since 2006, but Emma first started making soap in 1977 when she was in Australia whilst working on a herb farm in Victoria. Her passion for working with the herbs led her to explore making soap and to using beautiful essential oils. She has refined her soap to evoke a unique, all round experience through touch and scent while all importantly tending to the delicate needs of your skin. They are beautifully mild, kind and gentle and are like a fine wine, to be savoured and enjoyed. Emma uses small batch production and applies the greatest care. Only when the soap is perfectly cured it is hand wrapped and available for purchase.

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Ikebana Vases

Georgetown Pottery has been handcrafting fine porcelain pottery since 1972. All the handmade vases are hand decorated with Maine (USA) themed brushwork patterns and stunning glazes. We are the only European company that they export to.

The vases are designed to be simple, graceful, and elegant. Not only do the flowers look great in all of the different ikebana vases, but they also help to extend the life of your arrangements. Often fresh flowers will live for over 3 weeks. Each ikebana vase has a pin frog attached to the bottom. The pin frog pierces the stem of the flowers and allows water to be absorbed by the flowers much longer than in any traditional vase. They are the perfect size for coffee, kitchen or end tables in fact they are great in any room of the house.

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Elizabeth Parker - Glass Bead Maker

Liz trained as a silversmith, but for years she has worked as a freelance jeweller, using mainly silver as my medium. Becoming bored with the colour limitation of silver, she experimented with lots of materials to use with silver and finally found glass was what she was searching for. The limitless colours fascinated her and for the last 10 years the focus of her work has been glass, with silver to set it off.

Liz likes to make up her own designs for jewellery with the glass, as she visualize the finished piece whilst making the component beads. She tends to work to themes, building up a collection around an idea - then change tack as new visual stimuli inspire her!

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Cushion Love by Linda Runyard

Linda started out by just making her own bedding and cushions. These were admired by all her friends and family and the requests to make some for them began. Nowadays she also sells at craft fairs where she gets many requests for bespoke items.

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Devon Fine Fibres

To be graded as cashmere the undercoat of the Cashmere goat must be finer than 18.5 microns. All the fibre has been graded at less than 15 microns and is equivalent to Fine Inner Mongolian cashmere. Devon Fine Fibres are committed to quality in their breeding flock and fibre test every young goat when it reaches maturity. Unlike mohair and wool cashmere fibre quality deteriorates only marginally with age and they have animals of 7 producing fibre as good as a 1 year old!

Cashmere is combed in the spring by hand - a labour intensive job! The goats don't mind and often nod off on the combing stand. It's also a good opportunity to give them a thorough health check. The fibre is then washed and dehaired to remove the long coarse guard hairs which form the outer part of the coat. It is then separate into three colours for processing and spinning. White, Ecru and Dark.

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East of India

The company was started in 1991 by John A Yaris and Anne Spratling after travelling though Asia and meeting many local artisans. Today they still work closely with these artist who have a mutually beneficial

relationship with East of India. The company is based in Folkstone and employs many family members and friends. They are a fantastic company to deal with as well as having fantastic products that are hand finished. I hope in time to increase the range but for now if you don't see what you want then email me with the details.

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Jellycat

Jellycat was established in London in 1999 and is one of the worlds leading soft toy companies. Designed in England to a high quality and comply and exceed EN71 European Testing standards and ASTM the American Testing standard.

All the toys are hip and humorous and always soft and sumptuous.

Care Instructions - Lots of Love

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Willie's World Class Cacao

Is made into chocolate in Uffculme, Devon by using an authentic 100 year old chocolate making machine. The 100% cacao adds a wonderful richness when grated in or on food especially in gravy and casseroles.

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Janes Brooches

Jane lives in Devon and started making these brooches just for herself. After a very short time her friends were asking her to make them some and so it is now rapidly expanding. She is now working on a new range and hope to have them on this website fairly soon.

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