Hello. So glad you found me. I'm away until the 12 May so have popped my shop on holiday mode until then.

Textile pieces that bring nature home

If you pocket pebbles on walks, love a windswept landscape, and your camera roll is full of lichen close-ups — there might be something here for you.

I'm a maker based in the Derbyshire Dales. Since I was given a raffia weaving kit as a kid I always hankered after a heddle loom. In lockdown I thought 'sod it' and started weaving on whatever came to hand — forked sticks, pebbles, cardboard boxes. In 2025 a friend lent me a four shaft loom — a dream come true. I enjoy the rhythmic work and the way the pattern builds. But I still love using natural materials as a starting point, weaving tapestries onto the things I find outside. A loom has constraints I enjoy exploring. But a found stick or an interesting stone gives me a problem to solve.

I work from home in an old quarryman's cottage on the edge of the Derwent Valley World Heritage Site — the birthplace of the industrial revolution, where weaving got hooked up to a power supply. So I'm being a proper Luddite a couple of centuries too late. What passes for my studio is an old dressing table-come-naturalist's desk, where a natural history collection mingles with the yarns I've gathered.

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