Groovie Ghoul Designs

  Groovie Ghoul was started in 2014 by Kate-Louise Lavender  as a way for her to express herself and share her personal style with everyone else. After constantly being asked by both friends and strangers where she got her headbands, she decided to open a shop and share them with the world! Kate studied and worked…

Collaging Fabrics

Hope Macaulay is a luxury womenswear brand by an emerging Northern Irish designer. Hope creates large expressive collaged paintings and transforms them into prints, combined with detailed beadings and knit to create her garments. She also creates her own embellishments, inspired by her passion for ceramic making using Fimo clay and various fabrics and beads combined…

Highs & Lows of Running a Business

Sometimes business isn’t as smooth as a satin stitch. I interviewed five textiles designers who have previously been featured on Embellished Talk about their highs and lows of running a business. Danielle Clough – Fiance Knowles I never expected to be in the textile industry and that my main medium would be fabric and thread,…

Destiny City Threads

Mo Milligan creates embroidery designs that are a mixture of nature, quirky statements and one liners. Her hoop art is hand made in Tacoma, Washington. How did you get into embroidery? I grew up watching my Dad spend a lot of his spare time illustrating science-fiction comic book art. I’d accompany him on trips to…

Nature Inspired Embroidery

‘Annie Lang is a contemporary embroidery designer inspired by nature, adventure and Northern Michigan.’ How did you get into textiles? I feel like I really just fell into it. I’ve always been a creative person and constantly finding new ways to work with my hands. I went to college and graduated with a degree in…