Time for Tobyboo…
Thread illustrated home-ware and gifts 2012
Oranges & Lemons The traditional song is brought to life, each of the six London churches are free embroidered and printed onto a gorgeous zesty range including teacups and tea towels
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Britain, Britain, Britain a tea drinking, house-proud nation, reduced to stitches. Icons of London including the Gerkin, The Shard stitched along side, Tower Bridge, The London Eye and St Pauls are ‘sewn together’ with pigeons hovering in the sky for this quirky look at the Capital. Cities 2012 range includes tea towels, fine bone china bugs and clear sticky tape (regional area pieces on request).
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Designer and free embroidery artist Tina Crawford relishes collaborations and commissions. January 2012 Tobyboo was selected for the new Mary Portas Boutiques following a nationwide hunt and products are now sold in London, Manchester and Glasgow branches of House of Fraser. The Museum of London shop is also a proud stockist of Tobyboo.
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Oranges & Lemons fine bone china teapot rrp: £70 Teacup and saucer 6 designs each rrp: £24 Cotton tea towel 45 x 78cm rrp: £10 Cushion cover cotton drill, plain white reverse 45 x 45cm rrp: £40 Complete cushion with duck feather filled pad rrp: £45 Made in Britain
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London sticky tape 25mm x 66 metres rrp: £6 London bone china mug rrp: £15 Jack linen union tea towel 45 x 78cm rrp: £10
Made in Britain
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Tobyboo brings you quintessentially British home-ware. Central St Martin’s trained designer Tina Crawford brings you award-winning artful and nostalgic British cushions, blankets, tea sets and sticky tape. What makes this designer so different? Each illustration is free embroidered on the sewing machine – drawn with the needle. “I love drawing with the needle any mistakes become part of the work but that’s integral to the piece. I don’t draw or mark out before hand it’s literally needle to fabric” Tobyboo is inspired by Tina's loves and surroundings; London being one particularly close to her heart. Tobyboo designs involve a unique screenprinting process that gives the embroidered designs a whole new dimension and are soon to see themselves on chinaware and wallpaper alongside the current soft furnishing. Tina trained at London's Central St Martins College of Art and Design graduating in jewellery design and had a successful career in television production. After eleven years, Tina returned to design to study free machine embroidery and soon after Tobyboo was born.
Contact tina – 07940 562050 tina@tobyboo.com www.tobyboo.com
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