BURGON & BALL | RHS | British Meadow Twine in a Tin
Regular price £15.00 £15.00Just in time for Mother's Day comes this gorgeous Twine Tin perfect for matching the ever popular RHS range for Gardeners.
Purchase a treat for yourself or as a beautiful and thoughtful gift, this British Meadow Twine in a Tin is a practical gardening gift, a crafting keepsake or a use it to add pleasure when wrapping presents and treats in the old fashioned and sustainable way. When you've finished your twine you can replace it with your favourite colour or utilise the tin for storing other items.
This latest of the stunning collections in the RHS Gifts for Gardeners series, ‘British Meadow’ is a gorgeously bold and beautiful design. And with these garden classics hot horticultural favourites once again, ‘British Meadow ’ definitely has its finger firmly on the garden fashion pulse!
The designs have been carefully selected from the RHS Lindley Library, and include early nineteenth-century botanical illustrations and watercolours dating back to the 1630s.
Once your twine is finished you can reuse your tin and try change you twine colour depending on the season or craft project.
Contains 3-ply jute twine, 120m
Diameter 8cm, 12.5cm height
Powder-coated galvanized steel.
CAVALLINI & CO | CITRUS Tea Towel
Regular price £24.00 £24.00
This beautiful tea towel is made of 100% natural cotton and is packaged in a keepsake muslin bag
Featuring images from the Cavallini archives
48 x 80 cm
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CORNER BLOCK STUDIO | Tea Towel Frame 51cm
Regular price £45.00 £45.00Is that fabric heirloom sitting in a cupboard or third drawer down for years? At last here's a timber frame for displaying tea towels, needlework, or any fabric of your choosing.
Designed and crafted in Australia by Corner Block Studio. Made from premium, sustainable timber and 100% cotton cord.
SIZE GUIDE
Ideal for Tea Towels up to 51cm wide and any length. This is a common Tea Towel size.
It also suits fabric of various weights, with or without hems.
HOW IT WORKS
Your Tea Towel is securely clamped in each timber bar using a soft cotton cord. Click here to watch the installation video.
Fora Studios is proud to stock Corner Block Studio's designs which are Australian made from 100% renewable materials.
ALPERSTEIN DESIGNS | Fiona Puruntatemeri 'Jilimara' Tea Towel
Regular price £13.00 £13.00As the textiles renaissance takes place, the role of the tea towel begins to shift. Not just a gift for your great aunty overseas, these amazing designs from esteemed Aboriginal artist deserves pride of place in our own lives, whether it's hanging as a focal centrepiece on your living room wall, used as a thoughtful and sustainable gift wrapping alternative, or to dry and shine up your delicate teacups or wine glasses.
Royalties from this product directly benefit the artist and their community.
Cotton Tea Towel
Made in Australia
Dimensions: 45cm x 75cm (approx)
Tea towel artwork/placement varies from tea towel to tea towel so each one is a little bit different.
Based on artwork by Fiona Puruntatameri from Munupi Arts & Craft Association (Tiwi Islands).
Includes information about the artist and artwork.
Drawing inspiration from their natural lush environment and Tiwi creation stories, Munupi artists employ ochres, gouache and acrylic paint. Munupi Arts and Crafts are also highly regarded for the diversity of their range of works including painting, pottery, carving, weaving, screen prints, etchings, linocut prints, lithographs and screen printed textiles.
ALPERSTEIN DESIGNS | Betty Pula Morton Tea Towel
Regular price £13.00 £13.00As the textiles renaissance takes place, the role of the tea towel begins to shift. Not just a gift for your great aunty overseas, these amazing designs from esteemed Aboriginal artist deserves pride of place in our own lives, whether wall art hanging as a focal centrepiece on your living room wall, used as a thoughtful and sustainable gift wrapping alternative, or to dry and shine up your delicate teacups or wine glasses.
Betty has been painting with Artists of Ampilatwatja since 2013. She draws her inspiration from the country where she goes hunting or looking for bush yams and bush bananas, “sometimes I just like to go out there to see country”.
Made in Australia
Dimensions: 45cm x 75cm (approx)
The Artists of Ampilatwatja community was established in 1999 near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. The work produced by the artists is recognisably distinct from other Aboriginal artistic communities, due to the application of fine dots and the often bright, figurative depiction of the land.
ALPERSTEIN DESIGNS | Alana Ngwarraye Holmes Tea Towel
Regular price £13.00 £13.00“This is my country. I paint because I enjoy painting. My Mother, Edie Holmes let us paint with her when we were young and now we paint all the time. We still paint and talk together in a family group with our kids.” – Alana Holmes
As the textiles renaissance takes place, the role of the tea towel begins to shift. Not just a gift for your great aunty overseas, these amazing designs from esteemed Aboriginal artist deserves pride of place in our own lives, whether it's hanging as a focal centrepiece on your living room wall, used as a thoughtful and sustainable gift wrapping alternative, or to dry and shine up your delicate teacups or wine glasses.
Made in Australia
Dimensions: 45cm x 75cm (approx)
The community of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint altyerr dreaming stories. The artists paint their country where those stories sit.
Alana has painted her country after rain where the ground may seem dry but the flowers and trees are green and growing strong.
Alana's mother Edie Holmes is a well known artist of Ampilatwatja, who taught Alana how to paint when she was a young child.
Like many mums, Alana is extremely busy with four children to look after and though she loves to paint she does not get the time to paint like she used to.
Based on the artwork by Alana Holmes.
Includes information about the artist and artwork.
ALPERSTEIN DESIGNS | Judy Napangardi Watson Tea Towel
Regular price £13.00 £13.00‘I listen and hear those words a hundred years away
That is my Grandmother’s Mother’s Country
it seeps down through blood and memory and soaks
into the ground’
Judy Watson
As the textiles renaissance takes place, the role of the tea towel begins to shift. Not just a gift for your great aunty overseas, these amazing designs from esteemed Aboriginal artist deserves pride of place in our own lives, whether it's hanging as a focal centrepiece on your living room wall, used as a sustainable gift wrapping alternative or to dry and shine up your delicate tea cups or wine glasses.
Judy Napangardi Watson was born at Yarungkanji, Mt. Doreen Station, at the time when many Warlpiri & other Central & Western Desert Peoples were living a traditional nomadic life. Judy was taught painting by her elder sister, Maggie Napangardi Watson. She painted alongside her at Warlukurlangu artists for a number of years, developing her own unique style.
Judy is at the forefront of a move towards more abstract rendering of Jukurrpa, or The Dreaming, by Warlpiri artists, however her work retains strong kurruwarri, the details which tell of the sacredness of place and song in her culture. Judy Napangardi Watson has been exhibiting artwork since 1990 throughout Australia & around the world. Her works are featured in several major collections.
Made in Australia
Dimensions: 45cm x 75cm (approx)
Established in 1985, Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation is a not-for-profit organisation that is 100% Aboriginal-owned by its artists from the remote desert communities of Yuendumu and Nyirripi in Central Australia.
Artwork/placement varies between tea towel. Each is unique and may differ slightly from image shown.
More about the artist:
It was this design that I saw hanging from a small gift store in the Northern New South Wales town of Brunswick Heads. It appealed to me so much and led me to Alperstein Designs and their collaboration with indigenous artists, something I had been searching for. Judy's work is eye-catching, the colours and shapes mesmerising,
Judy Watson has described her experiences of travelling to her great-grandmother’s country in north-west Queensland, as ‘learning from the ground up’. It is a philosophy she has transplanted on her several journeys and residencies abroad. A distinguished artist, Judy represented Australia at the 1997 Venice Biennale,
Watson’s matrilineal link to the country of her ancestors has always been central to her printmaking and painting. The hidden histories of Indigenous experience on the colonial frontier – particularly those of women – continue to inspire her. Watson seeks the indelible impressions of past presence on the landscape – rubbings, engravings and incisions – and subtly inscribes them upon her work.
Through her art, Watson repatriates the human artefacts and objects of collected cultures in museum storehouses, and reveals the ‘skeletons’ in colonial ‘closets’:
This magnificent artist interview by the Tate Gallery gives us an insight into Judy's work and inspiration. Along with her pieces, Judy's journey into understanding her grandmother's and great grandmother's stories, also helps us to confront Aboriginal history in this country. Watch out for Judy's mum Joyce. She's a national treasure!
BURGON & BALL | RHS | Flora & Fauna Twine in a Tin
Regular price £15.00 £15.00Just in time for Mother's Day comes this gorgeous Twine Tin perfect for matching the ever popular RHS range for Gardeners.
Purchase a treat for yourself or as a beautiful and thoughtful gift, this Flora and Fauna Twine in a Tin is a practical gardening gift, a crafting keepsake or a use it to add pleasure when wrapping presents and treats in the old fashioned and sustainable way.
A stunning collection in the RHS Gifts for Gardeners series, ‘Flora and Fauna’ is a gorgeously bold and beautiful design. And with these garden classics hot horticultural favourites once again, ‘Flora & Fauna ’ definitely has its finger firmly on the fashion pulse!
The designs have been carefully selected from the RHS Lindley Library, and include early nineteenth-century botanical illustrations and watercolours dating back to the 1630s. The jade background of Flora and Fauna is by far our bestseller in the RHS range and obviously inspired by the fascination with Eastern culture at the time.
Once your twine is finished you can reuse your tin and try change you twine colour depending on the season or craft project.
Contains 3-ply jute twine, 120m
Diameter 8cm, 12.5cm height
Powder-coated galvanized steel.
CREAMORE MILL | Large Twine& Stand with Cutter
Regular price £47.00 £47.00This is an excellent accessory for both garden and home. The stand comes with integral cutter and a big 500 gram ball of natural twine. Made from oak, from managed sustainable forests.
Stunning and unique.
Made in England.
NUTSCENE | Twine Ball Crimson Red
Regular price £9.00 £9.00
Just a short drive away from the city of Dundee, in the rural county of Angus in Scotland, you'll find the locals employed at the Nutscene factory using the same machinery first used back in 1922, to produce their twines.
Nutscene's patented “Greentwist” centre pull lock tie spool of twine was first produced in this factory. When this wonderful green twine was used to tie up plants it was, of course, ‘not seen’ giving rise to “Nutscene!”
Today, Nutscene are very much in the crafters and gardeners spotlight, with an offering of 22 colours of Jute twine they've christened the twine fest!
Nutscene still focuses on producing its own range of high quality garden twines which are ethically sourced, from sustainable crops. Jute, in particular, is an environmentally beneficial crop. It's rain fed, fast growing , grows on wastelands and improves soil for future crops as well as sequestering CO2.
The offering of products has grown significantly since that first launch, and its popularity increases-across the globe.
Nutscene’s eclectic range of practical gifts utilises natural materials where possible, incorporating FSC wood, bidegradable jute and recycled cotton twines.
130 metre ball of Crimson Red Twine
NUTSCENE | Mini Tiddler Twine 20g - Blue - Terracotta - Olive - Mustard
Regular price £3.00 £3.00
Just a short drive away from the city of Dundee, in the rural county of Angus in Scotland, you'll find the locals employed at the Nutscene factory using the same machinery first used back in 1922, to produce their twines.
Nutscene's patented “Greentwist” centre pull lock tie spool of twine was first produced in this factory. When this wonderful green twine was used to tie up plants it was, of course, ‘not seen’ giving rise to “Nutscene!”
Today, Nutscene are very much in the crafters and gardeners spotlight, with an offering of 22 colours of Jute twine they've christened the twine fest!
Nutscene still focuses on producing its own range of high quality garden twines which are ethically sourced, from sustainable crops. Jute, in particular, is an environmentally beneficial crop. It's rain fed, fast growing , grows on wastelands and improves soil for future crops as well as sequestering CO2.
The offering of products has grown significantly since that first launch, and its popularity increases-across the globe.
Nutscene’s eclectic range of practical gifts utilises natural materials where possible, incorporating FSC wood, bidegradable jute and recycled cotton twines.
Price is for each twine. Select your desired colour
BURGON & BALL | RHS | British Bloom Twine in a Tin
Regular price £15.00 £15.00As a treat for yourself or as a beautiful and thoughtful gardening gift, this British Bloom Twine in a Tin is a practical gardening gift or a treat for yourself, making wrapping gifts and treats in the old fashioned and sustainable, way a real pleasure.
A stunning collection in the RHS Gifts for Gardeners series, ‘British Bloom’ is a gorgeously bold and beautiful design of dahlias and peonies, some of the most beloved blooms in the garden. And with these garden classics hot horticultural favourites once again, ‘British Bloom’ definitely has its finger firmly on the fashion pulse!
The designs have been carefully selected from the RHS Lindley Library, and include early nineteenth-century botanical illustrations and watercolours dating back to the 1630s. The dramatic dark background sets off the blooms beautifully, and the sumptuous colours simply sing.
Once your twine is finished you can reuse your tin and try another colour twine.
Contains 3-ply jute twine, 120m
Diameter 8cm, 12.5cm height
Powder-coated galvanized steel.
GARDEN TRADING | Wirework Holder in Antique Brass + Jute String
Regular price £32.00 Sale price £17.00 £17.00An indispensable item for greenhouses, garden sheds and craft studios taking inspiration from traditional garlic baskets. Garden Trading have adapted the design allowing a ball of twine to sit centrally, feeding the end of the string through the hole in its base.
With an Antique Brass finish, they've also juxtaposed the colours matching with a ball of contemporary carbon coloured Jute string with deep tones of midnight blue.
The functional yet beautifully decorative piece can be hung effortlessly whether ready to string up plants in the garden or use as that finishing touch to present wrapping.
CAVALLINI & CO | Bicycle Blueprint Poster
Regular price £8.00 £8.00Pre-order now! Arriving soon.
Cavallini Vintage Poster & Gift Wrap
For over 25 years Cavallini & Co. has been producing the highest quality gift and stationery products, drawing inspiration from the Cavallini archives.
Learn more about Cavallini & Co in our Brand Showcase.
FORA STUDIOS | Gift Wrapping Service
Regular price £5.00 £5.00There's nothing like receiving a beautifully wrapped gift. We are more than happy to gift wrap your FORA items. You have two options, Simple Kraft Gift Wrap or Deluxe Paper Gift Wrap
If you would like simple brown paper kraft wrapping with twine simply follow these steps. We charge 12.95 to your order no matter what size. Unlike an all-you-can-eat buffet, we may contact you if we need to charge you a surcharge for large or numeous items.
Steps:
You'll need to choose from the paper and size options illustrated and add it to your order. Don't worry if you choose the wrong size, we'll contact you to let you know we need to adjust the amount.
For our simple wrapping option, we use an eclectic mix of brown kraft recycled papers, twines, and tissue.
For our deluxe wrapping option, we use beautifully printed, environmentally responsible, heavyweight 100% recycled paper from Australia and around the world.
Yes. Where it is obvious to us that a gift consists of 2 similar shaped items we will always do our best to wrap them together. This will very much depend on shape, size and how your items need to be packaged to avoid damage in transit. Feel free to email us if you would like to check if it's possible.
As you can appreciate we sell a menagerie of products at Fora Studios, so this is difficult to answer without knowing the items, their size shape and weight. Large and bulky items may incur a surcharge as will multiple items . We'll make contact with you via email if this is the case. If you require your item wrapped quickly and it's fairly standard shape, we suggest you order it in a separate order transaction to avoid any delays.
Yes we can add a card that you have purchased or an appropriate gift tag. Just be sure to add your message and any important details to the Customer Notes section of the Cart.
Yes simply let us know in the Customer Notes box in the Cart. If you are purchasing gifts for more than one person it's then best to create separate orders.
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