Our beautiful new Maison has arrived

Our beautiful Maison bedding and tablelinen has arrived! In stunning Aubergine and Honey I already have my order in for a King Bed Aubergine quilt cover and Honey napkins. I am in love with our new shots, the moody rich blue on the wall behind the Honey tablecloth shot is stunning and just dreamy. I cant wait I adore these new colours - but yes I am biased...x

Bring on the tapas napkins!!

Our new hand printed tablelinen has arrived and I'm pretty excited, I've got the family coming over tonight for my Spanish fiesta - and my new Gallery tapas napkins in Caper have just landed on my desk they are sooo cute! Above is our lovely shot of the Gallery tapas in Ginger, I think I could get used to using these smaller 25cm (a quarter of the size) napkins all the time - I know they are going to be just perfect around our kitchen bench eating olives and anchoas with the special Spanish Cava we brought back from Seville to celebrate my husbands birthday (Happy Birthday honey! xx)

Spain at last - Vincon in Barcelona

I have been lucky enough to travel to Barcelona and found the lovely Vincon store, which has been around for 60 years! Specialising in kitchen products, pots and pans, cook books, lovely linen tablelinen and anything to do with cooking, they also have a "kitchen con" section which makes very cool kitchens and they have a fabulous contemporary furniture department set up in the most beautiful building with an outdoor terazzo tiled terrace that had views of Gaudi's famous Mila apartments. Oh to have a store that had views overlooking the Passeig de Gracia! 

Beautiful Styling

Light and moody 

Dark and moody

I love these shots by Elodie Rambaud - just beautiful and very inspiring as we design our new AURA tablelinen collection for Summer 2011. 

New AURA Table linen development for Summer 2011

Excuse my rough photography but I thought I would take some happy snaps of our new developments that have arrived from India - remember the screen printing mill! Well the samples have come out fabulous and I am really excited to be working on a new collection of table linen after so long. Our new range has been inspired by our AURA bed linen designs and is looking a treat! Let me know what you think! 

Hand screen printing

Hundreds of used screens - if they are not used for reprints they re use the metal frames by re stretching them. 

All the screens are hand drawn for colour separation - this is a very unique skill to be able to create the screens - they have to recreate each tiny mark and line on artwork sent to them. They could do it by photograph but say that these guys skills are so good that they prefer to continue to hand do it - brilliant!

One of the many screens that where made for our new table linen sampling. 

Colour matching pantones!! Yes believe it or not and they do a fantastic job getting the colours right.

And finally the hand Screen printing in action. 

I thought I would show you some images from my visit to a hand screen printing factory in Delhi. It was an interesting day to see that they are still hand printing basically how we did at Uni but on a huge scale.

These guys have some amazing skills and will be hopefully printing our new table linen collection for Summer 2011!