Perfect Pavlovas in 3 tasty ways

24 April 201926 April 2019 Categories: Kitchen & CooksTags: aprons · Baking · FRUIT · Inspiration · kitchen essentials · kitchen textiles · Kitchenware · London · Napkins · New Design · oven gloves · PINEAPPLE · Recipes · Screen print · tea towels · thornback & peel · thornback and peel · TROPICALLeave a comment

  With their delicate, crispy outside and marshmallowy centre, pavlovas are our go-to party pudding. Once you have mastered the technique of making a good meringue, you can have fun experimenting with different toppings. In this blog post we share some meringue recipe tips, and then make three of our favourite toppings for you to try.   INGREDIENTS (serves 6)  MERINGUES 175g caster sugar 3 large egg whites  Preheat the oven to 140ºC / Fan 120ºC / gas mark 1. Crack the egg whites into a large, clean bowl and whisk until stiff. Two points to note here: firstly you…

In conversation with Mims Heritage – the making of Wool Bunnies

11 April 2019 Categories: Friends & Family · History & MakingTags: bunny · design inspiration · Inspiration · lavender bunny · mims heritage · Pea Pod · Rabbit · Rabbit & Cabbage · tea towels · thornback & peelLeave a comment

Flora Mims of Mims Heritage is one of my oldest friends; we met on the first day of term of Norwich Art School and then went on to study Textiles at Goldsmiths College, London together. Here is a little window into her bunny making process with image captions taken from conversations with Flora. Each part is cut and sewn by hand then filled with sheepswool, lavender and rice. The bunnies are made using a beautiful brushed 100% wool fabric. Cutting the bunnies out of felt. The magic of drawing out a flat shape in order to create a three dimensional…

EDIBLE HERB CHRISTMAS WREATH

3 December 201828 November 2023 Categories: Christmas · Interiors & Designs · Kitchen & CooksTags: aprons · Christmas · christmas wreath · Coasters · design inspiration · Green · Inspiration · Screen print · Screen printed · screenprinting · tea towels · thornback & peel · thornback and peel · WreathLeave a comment

EDIBLE HERB CHRISTMAS WREATH BY THORNBACK AND PEEL

How to Create a Magical Christmas Table Setting

8 November 201728 November 2023 Categories: Christmas · Interiors & DesignsTags: Candles · Christmas · Christmas cards · Coasters · Delia · Green · Greenery · Holly · Inspiration · Juliet · Napkins · New Design · Placemats · Robin · Table linen · Tree · WreathLeave a comment

There is something wonderful about bringing out the same decorations for your Christmas tree every year. The joy at remembering how each one came to be part of the box. We feel the same about the way we decorate our tables for the various Christmas feasts. We love to see the familiar table linen and placemats. It is sweet how the whole family enjoys this, the children delighting in the traditions as much as the older generations. Start with the end in mind – that moment everyone you love is gathered together around the table. Why not begin some new…

Design Inspiration: Cherry

24 July 201710 August 2017 Categories: History & Making · Interiors & DesignsTags: aprons · cherries · cherry · cherry print · Coasters · Design · design inspiration · handprinted · Inspiration · kitchen essentials · kitchen textiles · Kitchenware · New Design · Placemats · Screen printed · screenprinted · tableware · tea towelsLeave a comment

This quintessential summer fruit has always been a favourite.    There is something so deliciously tempting about their plump, juicy redness you can’t help but eat the whole bowl. Cherries are an iconic image, and have long been used in everything from fashion and beauty to pop art. Hockney, Warhol and Lichtenstein have all fallen for these sweet, summer treats. So designing the new Cherry print for our range of homewares and accessories has been a particularly delicious project. We spent a long time mixing inks to get the exact shade of luscious red for the cherries and a lighter pink for the fill behind the leaves. We’ve designed this nostalgic…

How to Create Natural Hand Dyed Easter Eggs

6 April 2017 Categories: History & MakingTags: Breakfast · chicken and carnation · Coasters · dye easter eggs · easter · easter eggs · easter table · Flowers · Green · how to make · Inspiration · Napkins · Placemats1 Comment

My maternal grandma, Omine, has always been an inspiration to me and Easter is a special time of year for our family. Tips of pale green are pushing their way through on all the trees and bushes and the air is beginning to lose its chill. Every Easter it’s a tradition in our family for Omine and all the grandchildren to colour hen eggs with natural dyes to decorate our breakfast table on Easter Sunday. Here’s our tried and tested family recipe that we’ve used over the years to create natural dyed eggs. You will need: White hens eggs 1 red cabbage (to create the…

Thornback & Peel ♥ Marby & Elm

7 February 201714 February 2017 Categories: History & Making · London & ElsewhereTags: Inspiration · Jelly & Cake · letterpress printing · New Design · Screen print · Screen printed · screenprinting · stationery · valentine gifts · valentines cards · valentines dayLeave a comment

Thornback & Peel ♥ Marby & Elm. We’re a match made in heaven: vintage letterpress printer meets traditional screen printer, marrying age-old techniques with a modern design aesthetic. So for Valentine’s Day we decided to get together and create a unique card: Thornback & Peel’s classic Jelly illustration letterpressed with Marby & Elm’s signature fluoro script. Ready to pop in an envelope, seal with a kiss and post to your sweetheart. “This collaboration was a great opportunity to bring together our hand crafted printing techniques,” says Marby & Elm founder, Eleanor Tattersfield. “In fact you’re getting a product that is doubly hand made: a screen printed illustration by Thornback &…

The Art of Hanky Rolling

15 December 20161 February 2017 Categories: History & MakingTags: Christmas · christmas gifts · festive prints · gifts · handprinting · hanky boxes · Holly · Inspiration · mistletoe · Penni · pheasant · Robin · Screen print · screenprinting · stagLeave a comment

When you gift a Thornback & Peel Hanky Box, you are giving a present that has been handmade from start to finish.  The idea originally came about because Juliet was looking for an unusual present for her father-in-law. We start with a 100% cotton handkerchiefs, each one individually hand screen printed by our in house printer, Penni. As Christmas approaches, the large screen printing table in the middle of the studio is stacked with layer upon layer of tessellated hankies laid out to dry.  Hanky lasagne, if you will. Once the hankies have been heat pressed to make them colour fast…

Q&A: Anna Perring, ceramicist and founder of Luna Lighting

1 December 20161 February 2017 Categories: Interiors & Designs · London & ElsewhereTags: Bloomsbury · Cockpit Arts · Hidden Gems · Inspiration · London · Shopping · Studio · TravelLeave a comment

At this time of year, the glow of candlelight is a lovely thing. I have a set of delicate porcelain tea light holders lined up on our mantelpiece and I love the ritual of lighting them on a dark winter’s night. Each light is pierced with a tiny pinprick design, the patterns of light that scatter across the room have the quality of fairy lights and fireflies.  The random mixture of her designs also appeals. The tea light holders are individually hand made by ceramicist and fellow studio holder Anna Perring of Luna Lighting. Each one bears the maker’s mark,…

All Creatures Great & Small

2 November 20163 November 2016 Categories: Interiors & DesignsTags: beatrix potter · Delia · Design · english country garden · garden · Green · Inspiration · Juliet · Kitchenware · Rabbit · Rabbit & CabbageLeave a comment

Rabbit & Cabbage was one of the first prints we designed.  We launched it on a deckchair in 2006.  It has remained one of our all-time best-sellers.  Over the years we have tweaked the design a little, but the deckchair remains true to the original. Inspired by tales of Peter Rabbit and the Flopsy Bunnies running amok in Mr McGregor’s garden, the design is filled with nostalgic references to our childhoods. The chocolatey brown and vivid green of the vegetable patch, the lazy buzzing of insects on a summer’s afternoon, and the secret delights of the English country garden.     Like all…