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Kate Biggs is a painter. That is, when she’s not caring for her family, or dyeing up variegated embroidery threads (floss) in the Cottage Garden Threads dye room. @katebiggsart calls...

Anatomy of a Cottage Garden Thread explains the features and components of our embroidery floss.

Veronique Diligent is a captivating embroidery stitcher who resides in Melbourne, Australia. Her love for gardening is entwined with her love of textiles and her garden is where she finds...

When Amy Morgan decided to make stitchery her business, she took her first and middle names – Amy Kallissa – and ran with it or shall we say sailed with...

We don’t have to look far for inspiration, all we need to do is step out our front door. This time of the year is particularly inspiring in our little...

They say to never work with children or animals…but I bet they’ve never tried to tame the wild beast that is hand dyeing a natural fibre. Differences between dye lots...

Joanna Kabanoff is a stitcher and a historian, a combination that has evolved into a rich practice of textile designing and making. 

July 17th was national tattoo day and it got us pondering the connections that keep popping up between tattooing and stitching; it just feels like there’s increasingly a link between...

Have you ever held a vintage embroidery in your hands and wondered who stitched it? As you run your fingers over the stitches do you wonder what year it may...

Welcome to our first blog series called CGT school. In each lesson we are going to be cover the CGT fundamentals. Today's lesson is all about colour fastness and care instructions. ...

Brenda’s stitching has become deliberately crafted to emphasize the beauty of the line. There’s a looseness - a kind of dot/dash drawing with the thread.