All Things Considered

Mr Cinghiale
Posted by Simon Lewin

St. Jude's favourite, Christopher Brown, has just produced this wild boar illustration for Carluccio's. For a limited time you can purchase a copy of a poster of the image online from the Carluccio's store.

A selection of Chris' limited prints are available from our online print store.

Posted by Simon Lewin on February 28th, 2010

St. Jude’s Homewares
Posted by Simon Lewin

We've just taken delivery of our first St. Jude's tea towels, designed by Angie Lewin. They're approximately 76cm x 47cm, screen printed in the UK on 100% organic cotton.

And we'll shortly announce details of a range of ceramic mugs.

We'll post details here with links to online stockists for both - but if you have a favourite store that might like to stock our homewares, do ask them to get in touch via our website.

Posted by Simon Lewin on February 27th, 2010

Valentine’s Day
Posted by Simon Lewin

Exclusive to St. Jude’s, this three-colour linocut print by Christopher Brown was inspired by a Valentine’s Day card made for his partner last year.

For a limited period we’re offering the print at a reduced price of £85.00 to include free postage in the UK.

Christopher Brown was born in London in 1953 and attended the Royal College of Art where he was introduced to, and eventually assisted, Edward Bawden, the master of the linocut.

For full details, please visit our online print store.

Posted by Simon Lewin on January 19th, 2010

Easy Living
Posted by Simon Lewin

Thanks to Easy Living magazine for including the gallery in their guide to "Britain's 50 Most Stylish, Unusual, One-Off Shops". But don't worry if you can't get to visit us for a while - you could keep an eye on our online print store.

Posted by Simon Lewin on January 12th, 2010

New St. Jude’s fabrics
Posted by Simon Lewin

We're delighted to announce the launch of two new St. Jude's fabrics, designed by Angie Lewin and Mark Hearld.

Angie Lewin's Hedgerow is a three-colour design screenprinted onto a heavyweight linen union.

Mark Hearld's Bird Garden is also printed onto linen union in two colourways, with a third colourway on a natural linen.

We're busy working on new designs from Old Town, Jonny Hannah and Emily Sutton. If you'd like to receive details of these as soon as they're launched, you could sign up for our e-mail newsletter or visit our Facebook page.

Posted by Simon Lewin on January 8th, 2010

Bawden and Fortnum & Mason
Posted by Simon Lewin

Here's another piece by Edward Bawden for Fortnum & Mason, this time for Christmas 1955.

Posted by Simon Lewin on December 23rd, 2009

Christmas at Fortnum & Mason
Posted by Simon Lewin

In the first of a brief series, here's a cover of the 1958 Fortnum & Mason Christmas catalogue, illustrated by Edward Bawden. Taken from the wonderful 'Entertaining À La Carte', which details much of Bawden's work for the company.

Posted by Simon Lewin on December 19th, 2009

Mark Hearld’s Bird Garden
Posted by Simon Lewin

Here's a sneak preview of our forthcoming fabric designed by painter-printmaker Mark Hearld, the follow-up to his first design for St. Jude's, Doveflight.

We'll be launching with two colourways on linen-union (blue and red) plus a single charcoal colourway on natural linen. We'll be announcing formally via our St. Jude's website and newsletter in the next week or so.

If you're anywhere near Edinburgh, the fabric forms part of the Mark Hearld & Friends show at The Scottish Gallery on Dundas Street. They have a limited supply of cushion covers available.

Posted by Simon Lewin on November 5th, 2009

Norfolk Yarn
Posted by Kate Sullivan

I'm currently getting my creative fix from crocheting. Hooking the yarn through a series of loops is extremely therapeutic and meditative. Crocheting also has the added advantage of being mess free and portable, unlike some of my other attempted hobbies. I'm drawn to charity shops for odd bags of yarn and have become a frequent visitor to Norfolk Yarn in Norwich who stock a great collection of wools and cottons from around the world.

Whilst in the shop one batch of yarns by Mirasol really caught my attention. I was then told that the sales of Mirasol yarn help an education project in Peru called The Mirasol Project.

'This project aims to raise enough money from the sale of alpaca wool and cotton yarns to finance the building and day-to-day running of a boarding centre at the ranch, to support the children of the alpaca shepherds in their educational studies. The boarding centre will focus on an integrated health and educational programme and provide a secure place for the children to develop their potential'

You can follow developments of The Mirasol Project via their blog.

Posted by Kate Sullivan on October 7th, 2009

People Will Always Need Plates
Posted by Angie Lewin

Spent last night at an event celebrating Liberty's "Britain Can (Still) Make It" event, curated by David Nicholls (design editor of The Telegraph Magazine) and Michelle Alger (Liberty's home & furniture buyer). It was great to see reactions to our collaboration with the Race Furniture Company and to have the chance to see the other exhibits - all UK designed and produced.

Stand out items for us included Matthew Hilton's Treviso desk, Benjamin Hubert's Gradient chair (both for Ercol) and the new range from People Will Always Need Plates, 'British Industry Is Dead, Long Live British Industry'...

"This new edition is a response to the perceived wisdom that Britain no longer makes anything. While the traditional, heavy industries have long been in a steep decline, a few are still struggling on and in some cases enjoying a resurgence.

Though coal mining, ship building, and much of our motor industry has been lost, the UK is not simply a nation of shopkeepers - or more latterly, IT consultants and telecoms engineers..." More

The exhibition runs until Sunday 27th September 2009 at Liberty, Regent St, W1 (once there, head up to the 4th Floor).

Posted by Angie Lewin on September 24th, 2009