Welsh Notebooks

We've been planning on printing some notebooks for a long time, and we've finally got around to printing some! We've had trouble sourcing suitable notebooks in the past, but we managed to find these recycled A6 notebooks with a screen-printable cover.

There are four Welsh notebooks available at the moment. The most popular one at the moment is our 'Llyfr Syniadau' notebook (this means 'Idea Book' in Welsh), we should be printing up an English version in the next couple of weeks. We've also printed up our version of the Caernarfon Welsh blanket pattern. the Welsh alphabet and a 'Llyfr Nodiadau' (this means 'notebook'), this one has a space for you to add your name on the cover. All of our printed notebooks have 32 blank pages inside.

We are really exited about expanding our stationery range over the next few months.

Birds Art Prints

We have just finished printing our new screen-prints on paper. This is our first attempt at printing multi-coloured prints on card. Each print has four colours and measure around 230mm square. There's a Peacock, Blue Tit and an Owl available.

We had a couple of issues with registration to start off with but managed to sort them out in the end!
Here are some photos of the printing process.

Grizzly Co. T-shirts

We recently printed some t-shirt for a new ethical clothing brand called Grizzly Co. The t-shirts are now available to buy from their lovely new website. There are three designs available, all printed on vintage wash Organic t-shirts.

Screen Printed Compliment Slips

Just printed some more of our own compliment slips. We print these using Permaset Aqua standard white ink onto Eco Kraft paper from Paperback coop, they supply a lovely range of recycled paper.

We are getting on with some design work this week. It's difficult to find time to design as our t-shirt printing schedule is quite busy. We are working on a set of four colour screen printed bird posters at the moment, sneak preview below. We've even started designing some Christmas products!!!

Peris & Corr for Folksy

We were commissioned by Folksy at the end of last year to make a Handmade Crafters Apron. We came up with the idea of creating a print that interacted with the actual design of the apron. We made loads of drawings of various craft objects and combined them with some new and old motifs to create the finished print.

The finished apron was a full length apron with a large pocket split in to three compartments, perfect for holding all your tools and bits. We also screen-printed some 'Peris and Corr for Folksy' fabric labels especially for the aprons.

They are available to buy from here as part of the 'For Folksy' collection, alongside other commissioned goodies by other makers including Loglike.

We recently printed these lovely felt posters for Corby Tindersticks. We also printed some lovely 

t-shirts and hoodies as well. After we print them Corby Tindersticks embellish them as well, you can see the end results in their online shop.

This is the first time we have printed on felt, and we were really pleased with how the prints turned out.

New Workshop Dates

We have some new dates for textile screen-printing and lino printing workshops. The workshops will take place in our studio in October and November. We also have a special festive workshop taking place in November. Pop over to our workshops page on our site for more information and to book a place!

Recently we've been getting a lot of enquiries from customers that want to buy our fabric by the meter... So with some very helpful advice from the folks over at Ink & Spindle in Melbourne we are going to attempt to build our own fabric printing table. Will be quite a small table to start off with, probably around 3m long.....will see how it goes form there!


Above are some photos of how we are printing fabric at the moment. It involves printing one section then shifting the fabric along and aligning it very carefuly before printing the next section. It's a slow process....so can't wait to get the printing table sorted.

Printing Lampshade Panels

Here's some photos of us printing fabric panels for our lampshades. As our maximum print area at the moment is around A2 we usually print one section then shift the fabric along to print the next section. It would be much easier with a proper fabric printing table!

New Products

We have been making some new products over the last few weeks and have just uploaded them to the Peris and Corr shop.

We've made some printed organic welsh blanket lampshades and printed welsh blanket cushions.We will be offering these in custom colours so get in touch if you would like your own colours printed.

We have also been printing a new patchwork design made up from a selection of drawings. We've used the fabric to make some small clasp purses, handmade bags, cushions and lampshades.

As the design is made up of lots of small sections all of these products will be unique as they will feature diferent sections of the design. There's a couple of examples of the small clasps above.

Happy Campers

We have just spent a few nights down in Bovey Tracey exhibiting at the Contemporary Craft Fair. Spending four nights in a tent in the cold and rain wasn't great though.

We made a lot of new products for the show we will be adding them to our shop over the next couple of weeks.

We had a brilliant time and met loads of other makers. Rebecca Callis had a stall next door to us, she makes delicate pots and mugs, our other neighbour was the jeweller Molly Perrin who made vintage looking lockets. Julia Parry-Jones was over the road, a jeweller who makes amazing pieces from silver, wood and jewels.

The Contemporary Craft Fair

We will be heading down to the Contemporary Craft Fair at Bovey Tracey next week. We have been making loads of new products that we will be launching at the fair. Above is a sneak preview of a new print we have been working on!

If you want to pop by and see us we will be on stall B46. The Fair runs from the 10th to the 12th of June.

Kids Clothes Sale

To make space for a new range of kids clothes we are selling off the last remaining stock of our previous range for £6.00 each, with free postage! Stock is very limited so pop over to our shop now to grab yourself a bargain! All our kids clothes are printed on to high quality organic garments using solvent free water-based ink.

Tea Towel Give Away

We have a pair of tea towels up for grabs on our Facebook page. You could win a welsh alphabet tea towel and a 'lliain llestri' (tea towel in welsh) tea towel.

All you have to do is pop over to our Facebook page and like the competition post. Your name will then be put in a hat and the winner will be drawn at random next Thursday (03/03/2011). The competition closes at midday (GMT) next Thursday (03/03/2011)

New Welsh 'Tea Towel'

Have just finished printing these new tea towels.

They are printed with the words 'Lliain Llestri' (which is welsh for Tea Towel) contained within a swirly hand drawn border. The tea towels are Fairtrade organic cotton and measure around 50 x 70cm.

They are available in our online shop in turquoise or rose.

New Workshops

We ran a couple of screen-printing workshops last year and they went really well, so we will be running a few more this spring and summer. We will be starting off with a lino printing workshop in March and have dates planned for printing and sewing your own cushion, printing and sewing your own purse, printing your own tea towels and printing and sewing your own soft toy workshops! Pop over to our workshops page for more information.

Below is a quick mock up of a soft toy pattern we've been working on - needs a bit of fine tuning!

All our workshops are suitable for beginners, so don't be put off if you haven't done any printing or sewing before as we will be here to help you.

Places are limited to 4 people on most of our workshops, you can book through our website or just give us a ring or an e-mail if you have any questions

Cushions for Adra

We've just finished another batch of cushions for Adra. The cushions are printed on natural linen and have the words 'Cwsg' (Sleep) or 'Cartref' (Home) printed on them.

They are available to buy from the Adra website.

Made by Hand Online and Bovey Tracey

We are part of a new online shop called Made By Hand Online. Set-up by Sarah James and Katie Honnor (you can read a bit about them here) Made by Hand Online is a lovely website selling products from the finest makers in the UK and Ireland.

We are also very exited to have been selected to take part in the Contemporary Craft Fair at Bovey Tracey this year. The fair takes place between the 10th and 12th of June.

A Post!

The snow just before Christmas messed up our printing schedule a bit so we had some catching up to do this month. We are back on top of everything now, and are busy working on various printing and sewing work.

There's a few new products available in our shop including some clasp purses and posters. The welsh blanket purses are sold out at the moment but we will be making some more soon and will be printing this pattern on other items as well.

Made by Hand Feature in Embroidery Magazine

This month we were featured in Embroidery Magazine as part of Made by Hand which we will be exhibiting in next month.

We also have our work featured at the Shirehall Gallery as part of their Christmas craft show and Rob Ryan exhibition.

Christmas is coming, and we are selling a selection of Christmas cards through our Etsy and Folksy shops - 5 cards for £8 Bargain !

Rhys Thomas - Photography Exhibition

We are having an exhibition of photographs by Rhys Thomas at our studio in October. The exhibition will run from 11th of October until the 12th November. The private view will be on Saturday 9th of October between 3pm and 7pm if you want to pop by.

You can view a high res version of the poster here.