tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61759817841929603932024-03-19T03:09:06.141+00:00Hunted and StuffedHunted and Stuffed handmake upcycled vintage cushions in the UK for people who love original, unusual and high quality homeware with history.Hunted and Stuffedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13163139622296757675noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175981784192960393.post-24243876005063483082014-12-01T11:33:00.000+00:002015-02-10T17:57:47.822+00:00Hunted and Stuffed + Virginia Woolf at the National Portrait Gallery, London.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> "In 1919 the Woolf's bough
Monk's House in the village of Rodmell. This was a small
weather-boarded house (now owned by the National Trust) which they used
principally for summer holidays until they were bombed out of their flat
in Mecklenburgh Square, London in 1940 when it became their home."</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">By Oliver Mallinson Lewis from Oxford, United Kingdom (Picture 009) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">I visited Monk's House about 6 years ago whilst working on a photography shoot for Country Living Magazine. It is a sweet, low-ceiling little house with an amazing yet modest conservatory and very much felt like a peaceful retreat from city life. Now owned by the <a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/monks-house/" target="_blank">National Trust</a>, it was being looked after at the time by the designer <a href="http://carolinezoob.co.uk/" target="_blank">Caroline Zoob</a> who kindly welcomed us that day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">We saw the annexe room that Virginia Woolf had built on the side of the original house (which had it's own entrance and that she used as her bedroom and retreat, defining her own personal space within her home and marriage) which perhaps, alongside the writing lodge that she also commissioned at the end of the garden, contributed to the creation of her extended essay 'A Room Of One's Own'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" she famously wrote.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> We are very proud to say that our 'Virginia Woolf - A Room Of One's Own' cushion, remade from a penguin books cover tea towel, has been stocked in the shop at the prestigious National Portrait Gallery (Trafalgar Square, in the heart of London) to coincide with their major Virginia Woolf exhibition. Unfortunately, they have now completely sold out - as limited edition things tend to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">When in the garden that day with my friend and colleague, I asked her what had made Virginia leave Monk's House, as it was so peaceful and tranquil there. She told me that Virginia had filled her pockets with stones, walked down to the river at the end of this very garden and drowned herself. It was a chilling moment. And now, these few years later, that very friend of mine is no longer with me, tormented by the same demons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Anyway, it is a beautiful location and worth a visit when the season begins again in the spring. If travelling from London then just the journey over the wonderfully undulant South Downs landscape is a welcome joy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Hunted and Stuffed </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span>Hunted and Stuffedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13163139622296757675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175981784192960393.post-73260617505300578752014-10-03T10:24:00.000+01:002015-02-10T17:58:21.768+00:00Victorian Calling Cards - English visiting etiquette in the late 1800s<style>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In England in the late 1800s,
visiting one’s friends and relatives required a calling card. These Victorian
equivalents of text messages were rectangular cards with the visitor's name
engraved or printed onto one side and covered with a highly coloured and
decorated die-cut flap of paper. These designs incorporated many motifs and
symbols including meaningful flowers such as roses and forget-me-nots,
sailing ships (to indicate going on a journey), </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">the ubiquitous ‘hand of friendship’</span> and other symbols of love and amity.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">A selection of Victorian Calling Cards from the late 19th Century.</span></td></tr>
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(usually by one’s servant) to the servant at the receiving household and was
received on a silver platter but the messages didn’t stop there: The upper left
corner turned down signified a congratulatory visit, lower left corner for
condolence, lower right hand corner to indicate taking leave (going on a trip)
and upper right corner meant the visitor had left the card in person (rather
than sending their servant). To formally arrange the visit, the recipient sent
their card in return however to receive no card in return or inside an envelope
indicated that your proposed visit was not welcome.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Above: The engraved name under the decorated flap is Mary Cady who gave this card away in a congratulatory visit (as indicated by the folded top left corner) to persons unknown.</span><br />
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used this fascinating historical quirk as the inspiration for our new HandS collection.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.huntedandstuffed.com/collections/new-digital-print-cushions" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There are three different designs currently in the collection.</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.huntedandstuffed.com/collections/new-digital-print-cushions/products/my-love-to-you-ship-cushion" target="_blank">MY LOVE TO YOU Cushion</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The design is digitally printed onto 100% cotton and continues over the seams and onto the back, cleverly giving a wrap around effect and creating a double sided design that you can simply flip over if you fancy a change.</span></div>
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recently sourced some fabulous deadstock fabric that had been produced at the now demolished Gannex Mill
in Greater Elland, Yorkshire. Always one to love a bit of research to uncover
the stories behind the vintage fabrics that we upcycle, I discovered that this unique textile
is a surviving piece of social history and one that's intertwined with my own personal history- let me tell you the story.......</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">Gannex is the brand name for the iconic British textile
invented and produced by Kagan Textiles Ltd in Greater Elland, Yorkshire in the
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">Joseph Kagan, later Lord Kagan, was a colourful character. A
Jewish immigrant who fled Stalin’s invasion of Lithuania, he built a textiles
business in Yorkshire and developed a new type of cloth which combined the
warming properties of wool with the waterproofing of polyester which he named
‘Gannex’.</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">Gannex raincoats sold across the world with the British
Prime Minister Harold Wilson being the staunchest supporter, rarely seen
without his. Both men pursued their vision of putting British manufacturing firmly
back on the map and reviving the fortunes of the Yorkshire textile industry
with Kagan Textiles being the leading employer in Elland for a time.</span></div>
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to order a Gannex raincoat from Harrods thus securing the Royal Warrant and leading
to the provision of raincoats for the Queen and even her Corgis to wear.</span></div>
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grace, doing time inside for ‘tax evasion’ in 1976 after stealing 23 barrels of
indigo dye from his former factory, going on the run in Spain and finally being captured
and extradited on a visit to Paris when a disgruntled former mistress betrayed him. He was
also rumoured to have been a spy. Although jailed and fined he did make a
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Stuffed’s love of a good back story, imagine how thrilled I was to hunt down
some original vintage rolls of Gannex fabric from this famous, and now long
gone, Mill. Enough, in fact, to create two very special Limited Editions...</span></div>
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over-locked with a hidden zip in the base and has it's own hand-stamped
label with the origin of the vintage textile and the individual edition
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Leeds in the 1940’s and 50's at the Bean Ing Mill until it too was closed and eventually
demolished. After doing some further family research I discovered that her father worked
in the textile industry too. There is some comfort in discovering that
something you have chosen to do is actually in the blood and I was amazed to
discover that I’m actually the fourth generation of my family to work in
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Built over a 40 year period by <span style="color: #c0504d;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Gott" target="_blank">Benjamin Gott</a></span>, it was the world's
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Hunted and Stuffedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13163139622296757675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175981784192960393.post-69461439962344583462013-11-15T10:13:00.000+00:002015-02-10T18:25:03.313+00:00Hunted and Stuffed Equestrian Cushion Featured on TV series GEORGE CLARKE'S AMAZING SPACES!<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We're thrilled to tell you that one of our Equestrian themed upcycled vintage cushions was selected to appear on last night's TV episode of George Clarke's Amazing Spaces on Channel 4!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">It's <a href="http://www.huntedandstuffed.com/collections/horse-cushions/products/vintage-points-of-the-horse-cushion" target="_blank">AVAILABLE TO BUY HERE.</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">If this is making you feel inspired about the possibilities of design on a budget or in a small space, check out Jane Field-Lewis' 'My Cool...' brand at <a href="http://mycoolhomepage.com/" target="_blank">mycoolhomepage.com</a> Jane is also the hugely creative force behind the Amazing Spaces series and books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Purple Carrot, the brainchild of Illana Adamson, upcycles furniture that would otherwise end up in landfill and aims to create a route for income for marginalised members of the community as well as create skills for the community as a whole. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Farrow and Ball have just announced their <a href="http://www.farrow-ball.com/newcolours/content/fcp-content?utm_source=UKSept13Newsletter&utm_medium=emailnews&utm_campaign=UKenewsletter" target="_blank">gorgeous new 2013 colours</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> and have also produced this charming and whimsical little book about the adventures of some pieces of unwanted furniture and their upcycling journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Using this book as inspiration, we soon found our own collection of pieces that were abandoned or on their way to landfill. Here they are just after we rescued them.</span></div>
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<i> Above left: Illana gives some advice to young helpers. Above right: Lauren tackles the hundreds of staples that needed removing from the wooden chair.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Fast forward a few weeks and after much hard work the pieces were finally finished. Time to show them off in Duck Pond Market, Richmond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> Lauren worked tirelessly on these drawers and made them look amazing with</span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Stiffkey Blue No. 281 and some rescued brass handles and 'windows'. The drawers are also lined with beautiful paper</span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">inside. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Anna, proprietor of The Perching Post in Barnes, has kindly offered her support by hosting a pop-up shop where our pieces are currently available for sale. All monies raised will go to support the Purple Carrot project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><b>'Creating The Vintage Look - 35 ways to upcycle for a stylish home'</b> is being published worldwide by <a href="http://www.rylandpeters.com/creating-the-vintage-look" target="_blank">Cico Books</a> this month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">To celebrate the launch, we've teamed up with <a href="http://www.theoldcinema.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Old Cinema</a> in Chiswick to hold a free exhibition of unique upcycled vintage furniture and homeware projects featured in the book.</span></div>
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Old Cinema is just that: a picture palace dating from
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">It’s a thrifty way of decorating and enhancing your home that
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<a href="http://www.creatingthevintagelook.com/images/portrait-hunted-and-stuffed-01.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Portrait of Ellie Laycock author of creating the vintage look" border="0" src="http://www.creatingthevintagelook.com/images/portrait-hunted-and-stuffed-01.jpg" height="150" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Ellie Laycock trained as an artist and works as a London-based
professional photographer for clients such as Giorgio Armani, Sony
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">A love of innovative design, stylish interiors, and rummaging for
vintage treasures led to the founding of her company, <a href="http://www.huntedandstuffed.com/">Hunted and Stuffed</a>, which specializes in luxury homeware made from upcycled vintage materials.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">She recently won the Platinum Brand Amplifier award for female
entrepreneurs and the Startup Britain ‘PitchUp!’ Competition which
resulted in her being selected to pitch her upcycled original vintage
cushions to a major department store.</span><br />
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Hunted and Stuffedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13163139622296757675noreply@blogger.com0The Old Cinema, 160 Chiswick High Road, London, Greater London W4 1PR, UK51.4928988 -0.2546116999999412725.9708643 -41.563205699999941 77.0149333 41.053982300000058tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175981784192960393.post-4752003639775729552013-06-26T17:04:00.002+01:002015-02-10T18:27:42.048+00:00New KIMONO LUXE upcycled vintage cushions for Liberty Best Of British 2013<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Hunted and Stuffed started out originally with a scrap of vintage Japanese silk from a woven Obi (Kimono belt) and an idea about upcycling so it seems really fitting that we can finally announce the launch of our new range of Kimono Luxe cushions!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />Our boldest pieces are one-of-a-kind works of art that take the form of large bolsters, handmade from exquisite sections of vintage Japanese wedding Kimono silks and brocades.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Japanese vintage wedding kimonos (Uchikake) can be breathtaking in the amount of detail and craftsmanship that goes into making them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Woven designs and carefully selected motifs are laden with symbolism and worked in real gilt threads in silver and gold. Each Kimono is a unique piece of art and the designs flow over the whole of the garment therefore each section of fabric is completely individual once the garment is unpicked. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Narrow looms dictate the width of these panels and historically in order to wash one of these kimono, the garment would be unpicked, cleaned and then sewn back together, such is the attention to detail and the precious nature of the fabric.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This is our first piece, made for the <b>Liberty Best Of British 2013</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Liberty is hugely significant in the history of the Kimono in the UK. Arthur Lasenby, Liberty's founder, imported beautiful and historically significant antique embroideries from the Far East and sold important Kimono pieces to the V&A Museum as early as 1877.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This is the video by Liberty from this years Best Of British Call, look out for me about 30 seconds in!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Cranes and Plum Blossoms adorn this brocade against a fiery orange and gold backdrop woven of gilt thread. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Cranes are believed to live to 1000 years of age and inhabit the Land of the Immortals and so adorning a wedding Kimono with them is to imbue the wearer with their symbolic properties.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Plum Blossoms have a seasonal meaning and as the first flower of the year to bloom, they symbolise rebirth and longevity. It is possible that this Bride was married in the early spring time. Again by wrapping her in these symbols the intention was that she would experience longevity in life and marriage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> We hunt for these amazing vintage textiles and often source them directly from Japan, it takes 8 weeks for them to arrive before we start work upcycling them into our Kimono Luxe pieces. As each textile is different, we carefully select a complimentary coloured luxury cotton velvet that really lets the textile come alive, in this case a luscious orange, and we source this from a London based luxury fabric business that has been trading for over three generations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">With such heavy brocade, there can be many threads that run across the back of the designs so we make sure to line the textile with cotton and overlock all edges for strength. We fit a matching concealed zip into the base so that the pad can be removed and fill the bolsters with luxury feather pads that have been made here in the UK.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Finally, each piece comes with a foiled tag which has been handmade on a vintage hand printing press again here in the UK and details the unique history of each individual piece and it's edition: 1 of 1.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><br />To see more of our designs please visit <a href="http://www.huntedandstuffed.com/collections/kimono" target="_blank">www.huntedandstuffed.com/collections/kimono</a><br /><br />What do you think of our Kimono Luxe pieces? We’d love to know your thoughts, please leave comments at the end.<br /><br />Ellie</span>Hunted and Stuffedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13163139622296757675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175981784192960393.post-12186781547388997202012-10-11T11:41:00.000+01:002015-02-10T18:28:18.858+00:00SPACE THEMED UPCYCLED VINTAGE CUSHIONS from HUNTED AND STUFFED.<div style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; text-align: center;">
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These amazing original vintage scarves were made in 1969 to celebrate the Apollo Moon Landing which made Neil Armstrong a household name. They were found perfectly preserved in a suitcase owned by a travelling salesman working in California, USA in the 1970's.</div>
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We have sewn them into fabulous large cushions with a blue velvet back and matching concealed zip.</div>
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This design is so bright and fresh it's hard to believe how old it is!! The 'Man On The Moon' design features a rocket,portraits of the astronauts and a moonscape and American flag. </div>
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The reverse is made with eco-friendly off-cuts from the textile industry and is a designer fabric that was selected as it looks like an astronaut's space suit! </div>
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Hunted and Stuffedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13163139622296757675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175981784192960393.post-89297619645619501052012-06-18T17:49:00.000+01:002015-02-10T18:30:01.483+00:00Routemaster London Bus Cushions<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I love the iconic design of the classic London Routemaster Bus, introduced in the mid 1950's</span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">and still in service until fairly recently.</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> Of course it would be hard to beat the London Bus that was unveiled at the Beijing Olympics closing ceremony which featured a flip-top lid and Leona Lewis strapped to a stick which extended skyward with a bit of a wobble but perhaps, at this summer's Olympics, there will be an even better treat. We can only wait with baited breath. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This is one of a pair of souvenir Harrod's tea towels from 1978 and 1979 respectively each with a calendar for that year. This 1978 one has London landmarks in the background. The 1979 one below has a drawing of the Harrod's store front as a backdrop. Both feature the RM2214 Routemaster Bus which is none other than the former Enfield (and Edmonton) showbus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I also found this great vintage London Zoo tea towel which would look fab in a kid's room. It features lots of animals and birds on the bus with a monkey eating a banana, a rather large elephant on the top deck(wise?)with a very squashed zebra sat next to him and an almost Biblical scene of a snake offering an apple to a perplexed looking giant panda.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Thanks for looking and enjoy your journey. Ding Ding!</span>Hunted and Stuffedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13163139622296757675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175981784192960393.post-69650529318110334482012-05-13T17:12:00.000+01:002015-02-10T18:30:47.358+00:00Dulwich Open House 2012<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This weekend it's Dulwich Open House for May 2012. Hunted and Stuffed have been hanging out at <a href="http://motdujour.co.uk/" target="_blank">Jo from Mot Du Jour's</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">beautiful house along with lots of other designer/makers. I took some photos to share with you of some of the goodies and people behind them from this fab weekend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> This is Rachael from </span><a href="http://www.mothandco.co.uk/" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" target="_blank">Moth & Co</a><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> with some of her lampshades made from vintage fabrics and silk scarves. I love her fairy light shades below. Always nice to meet a fellow upcycler!</span><br />
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Lovely vintage finds from <a href="http://theokcorral.co.uk/" target="_blank">The OK Corral</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Jane Cumberbatch of <a href="http://www.purestyleonline.com/" target="_blank">Pure Style</a> fame with her new cook book. (Loving her pure style linen tea towels!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Mot Du Jour's vintage goodies, loving the little yellow lampshades on the top shelf.</span><br />
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These boots are Jo's definition of "Vintage".</div>
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Lovely Nel from Nel's Cakes - as you can see she is nearly sold out. Speaks for itself!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Yesterday the shop run by the kids from the garden shed was open for business and doing a roaring trade but sadly today it is "Closd".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Next outing for H&S will be the official Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant in Battersea Park, London where we will have a stall in the Etsy Marketplace on the 3rd June. Hope to see you there! x</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I love these buttons. They are original vintage silver metal police uniform buttons which feature the Queen's initials and her crown motif making them a perfect match for royal themed cushions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Have a look on my new website over at <a href="http://www.huntedandstuffed.com/">www.huntedandstuffed.com</a> to see more Royal and Vintage London pieces. Whatever you do on Saturday I hope you have a great time. Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace; font-size: small;">The <b>Upcycled Exhibition</b> at <b>The Old Cinema</b>, Chiswick is in full swing now until the 25th March 2012. I popped down to take some photos of the event which I wanted to share with you and give some love to the other exhibitors. There's some really amazing upcycling going on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I love the surface design here with the layers of Graffiti just peeking through the paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Fabulous patchwork chairs by Kelly Swallow below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I'm please to announce that I won the Brand Amplifier Platinum Award for Best Business Vision 2012!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="http://www.brandamplifier.co.uk/" target="_blank">Brand Amplifier</a> was set up by Jeanette Pritchard of <a href="http://www.jpcreative.co.uk/" target="_blank">JPCreative</a> in 2009 to empower and mentor female entrepreneurs in Lambeth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">From a wealth of applications, 17 finalists were selected and invited to attend a series of workshops at JPCreative HQ at Piano House in Brixton over a period of 4 weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">We were lucky enough to be mentored by Jeanette herself, Jasmine Birtles- founder of <a href="http://moneymagpie.com/">moneymagpie.com</a> and Claire Morton - founder of <a href="http://www.alchemy-events.co.uk/" target="_blank">Alchemy Events</a></span>.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">"Along the way, Jeannette unreservedly shared the keys to her own
success. “You are the only one who can do what you’re doing, the way you
are doing it,” she said. “Therefore, you are the unique element in your
product, because people in business buy into you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">“You need to ask yourself, what is different about your product? What
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<span style="font-size: small;">Around the room, you could feel passion perspiring from the foreheads
of the ladies as they listened to the wisdom of these women who had
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Not only could they appreciate that this was a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to lift their business up from the paper it sat on, but they
welcomed the wealth of experience exhumed by Pritchard and her team.
After all, they had all once been in their position too. They knew
exactly what it was like to have merely an idea; a passion; a vision." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The 21st February was the night of the awards at the national Theatre. We all had to pitch Dragon's Den style in front of a panel of judges consisting of Councillor Sally Prentice (Deputy Cabinet Member for Employment and Enterprise), Sylvia Marshall from </span><a href="http://cosyhomesonline.com/" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">cosyhomesonline.com</a><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> and </span><a href="http://mildredtalabi.com/" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" target="_blank">Mildred Talabi </a><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Platinum winner from 2009 and recent author of "7 Keys to a winning CV".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Gold went to Kate Hathway for "</span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/tomandamelia" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" target="_blank">Tom and Amelia</a><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">" and <br />Silver was shared by Lesley Brewster from </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="http://www.hotminutemag.co.uk/" target="_blank">"Hotminute Magazine</a>"</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> and Victoria Holt from "<a href="http://www.fredandginger.com/" target="_blank">Fred & Ginger London</a>".</span></div>
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L-R Jeanette (<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="http://www.jpcreative.co.uk/" target="_blank">JPCreative</a></span>), Me, Claire (<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="http://www.alchemy-events.co.uk/" target="_blank">Alchemy Events</a></span>) </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Thanks to JP and all at JPCreative, the mentors and judges, Lambeth Council, Southwark University and </span><a href="http://brixton.makerhood.com/" style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;" target="_blank">Makerhood</a><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">. </span></div>
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This stuffed cushion is also from the coronation in 1953 and is made from an original cotton souvenir handkerchief finished with royal blue cotton back and red pom pom trim.</div>
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The Silver Jubilee in 1977 produced a plethora of wonderful commemorative souvenir designs, this one combining the Jubilee with a tourism plug for the UK using a London Bus and London Transport logos around the edge, the advert on the side of the bus says "Visit London".</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> The first Australia cover I made was this one using two vintage silk scarves sewn together with a zip fastening. I found the Koala scarf first and loved it's kitschness then when I saw the Aboriginal Dot Painting scarf with similar colours I knew I'd found a match.</span></div>
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Sometimes natural pairs seem to emerge and this is another example of two concurrent vintage finds that seemed made for each other. These are vintage tea towels, on one side the flag and on the other a ten dollar bill. As these came up a bit smaller than usual, I stuffed it myself as it wouldn't fit a standard pillow. (It's currently available in Brixi, Brixton)</div>
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MAKERHOOD is an amazing new website which connects local makers in Brixton and environs in SW London with local buyers. It's like an anti-Tesco conceived and made by volunteers. A Hyper-local Etsy where you can meet your buyer to hand deliver your product and maybe have a coffee too. In Beta, it's growing day by day and creating new communities as it goes. Rolling out to your town soon? </div>
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I was lucky enough to be selected for a "Meet The Makers" interview on the site so <a href="http://connect.makerhood.com/2011/07/22/meet-the-makers-ellie-laycock/">click here</a> if you want to know a bit more about Hunted and Stuffed or where to find the friendliest coffee in Brixton. </div>
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For these round cushions I managed to source two matching hankies in cotton featuring flags from all the countries of the commonwealth. I have used a vintage ensign to make the reverse and have trimmed with a red pom pom fringe. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">This is a one-off unique vintage cushion featuring a silk crepe hanky with a Coldstream Guard, Beefeater and lovely illustrations of important London landmarks such as the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey with flag standards in each corner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Trimmed in a lemon yellow pom pom fringe and a royal purple velvet back this beautiful hand stitched cushion is available <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/72867828">here. </a></span></div>
Hunted and Stuffedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13163139622296757675noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175981784192960393.post-74100463793838521702011-03-17T11:08:00.000+00:002015-02-10T18:43:18.082+00:00Hunted and Stuffed's first silk scarf cushion - Picasso woman in vintage silk.<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">I sourced this striking silk twill scarf featuring a portrait of a woman and signed by Picasso and teamed it with a vintage green silk (which I picked up in Spain from the costume box of a long-defunct ballet company) for the back. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">The colours are really jewel-like and bold and </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">measuring 32" x 32" it's big too </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">making it a real statement piece.</span></div>
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Hunted and Stuffedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13163139622296757675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175981784192960393.post-5829658294813347832011-03-16T20:24:00.002+00:002015-02-10T18:45:21.620+00:00Keep Calm and Carry On Battle Of Britain Upcycled Cushion<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."</span><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> </span></div>
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Hunted and Stuffedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13163139622296757675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6175981784192960393.post-63535895915135253512011-03-16T20:13:00.001+00:002015-02-10T18:46:27.865+00:00Keep Calm and Carry On - D-Day Commemorative Cushion<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Available <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/70149335/keep-calm-d-day-1944-wartime-cushion-war">here</a>. </span></div>
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