Tuesday 15 September 2009

Eco Haberdashery Gallery
























YUMMY YARNS!


Introducing our new Eco Haberdashery

We have been busy bees this summer creating a new Eco Haberdashery.

It now has its very own wall where you can choose from an artists palette of yummy yarns, discover beautiful vintage buttons, pick up vintage knitting patterns and flick through our books and much more.....

The haberdashery is like a sweet shop when it comes to discovering new knitting, crochet&embroidery yarns.

Eco Knitting, Crochet & Embroidery yarns
*Organic Hemp: from Bulgaria
*Silk with natural dyes
*Organic Colourgrown cotton
*Rare breed Yarns made in the UK
*Organic wool with natural dyes
*Recycled sari silk
*Recycled sarong yarns from Indonesian women's co-operatives
*Eco Annie recycled London textile yarn
*Fine Linen
*vintage sewing yarns

We have a range of tools:
*Needles, crochet hooks and rug making tools
*Recycled, vintage, bamboo, steel, Bakelite and primitive plastics

We have baskets full of beautiful buttons to rifle through:

Buttons:
*Rematched vintage sets
*Vintage buttons on original cards
*Antique mother of pearl and glass buttons
*Mixed sets for embroidery projects
*Antique buttons:cellulose, Bakelite,keratin and primitive plastics
*Hand made painted buttons

We stock a wide selection of natural dyes in powder form for easy use, and a small stock of the mordant, alum to intensify colour and aid adherence of the colour to the fibre.

We have a small selection of key books on knitting, textile techniques, environmental design, as well as current and back copies of the fabulous textile magazine SELVEDGE and finally a vast archive of knitting patterns, mainly 70s and 80s to inspire!!

Come and discover our dazzling Haberdashery wall for yourselves......

London Design Week



The Oxo building is getting all the shops to open for an evening.

Please come and say hello to us at Annie Sherburne Designs,

Thursday 17th September, 6-8 pm.
1;10 Oxo tower, bargehouse street, SE1 9PH (overlooking the Thames near Blackfriars bridge.) (tel 0207 922 1112)

Come and see our design delights,
be inspired, chat and drink with us in to the evening!!

We are now open 7 days a week from 12 to 6.

Theres a new wall of eco knitting yarns,
a full selection of natural dyes in powder form,
a small preview of new rugs before exhibiting at Origin, Somerset House on the 13th to the 18th of October,and of course, lots of Pure fabrication jewellery.

Hope to see you there!
Love from Annie, Annette, Hannah and Stephanie