Initially, inspiration for textile design was drawn from a handwritten notebook, which had belonged to the designer’s Grandmother. Her grandparents had been bakers selling home baked bread and cakes for most of their lifetime. This small fragile book included some of the corner shop’s recipes and also several of her grandmother’s shopping lists.

Since then others have donated pages from family notebooks, which has led to the current collection of 26 tea towels illustrating recipes and other intriguing and nostalgic written material. The collection also includes napkins, ironing board covers, silk cushions, aprons and made to measure draught excluders.

The collection is now available in small stores and exhibition venues around the world.