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Littleworks Creative

phone: +44 (0)7974 187479

Littleworks Creative offers little works of art by Tamara Williams. She makes her unique pieces using plaster to cast both intaglio and relief plates. Each cast is unique, since no two castings are the same. Even colours can change due to the plaster baking the surface and altering the stability of the inks..Tamara's exquisite artworks always start with a drawing - and much of her inspiration comes from plants. Each plaster tile is air-dried, mounted and framed, and frames are hand-painted. Works are made to order and colours can be specified. Prices from £65

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Purely Shutters widow covers

Purely Shutters

Unit 5, Birmingham Trade Park, Kingsbury Road, Birmingham, B24 9PS

phone: 0800 038 5311
Shutters not only look great, they're a recognised energy efficiency measure under the government's Green Deal, with an estimated £96 savings per year on a three-bedroom house (2013). In summer use shutters to keep your house cool, and in winter use them to let in natural warm light, then close them when it gets dark to retain heat in your home. It’s estimated that shutters reduce heat loss from windows by 25-50 per cent, so they're a very sensible investment.
 
At Purely Shutters we care about the environment and ethics. All our woods are from sustainable sources: we buy cedar from managed forests where a tree is replanted for everyone felled; our laminated wooden shutters come from parasol, a fast-growing farmed wood; and our Warwick range is our most eco-friendly, because no trees have been felled for them - rather the laminate is produced from waste off-cuts not useable elsewhere.
 
Purely Shutters' products allow you to maintain privacy, especially important if you live in close proximity to your neighbours. But because you can open the slats during daytime, you'll get maximum light in your rooms, which is important because natural light is vital for our health and wellbeing.
 
 

The Strathearn Gallery

The Strathearn Gallery, 32 West High Street Crieff, Perthshire, PH7 4DL

phone: 01764 656100

The Strathearn Gallery is a fabulous contemporary art gallery in Crieff, set up in 1994 and run by Susan Bennett. The gallery is well known for exhibiting original work from leading Scottish artists as well as supporting new and up-and-coming artists. The gallery sells a mouth-watering selection of applied art including ceramics, glass, sculpture and jewellery at prices ranging from £50 into the hundreds - if you're looking for a special present for someone, this gallery will be the place to find it. It's also a member of the Own Art scheme which allows you to pay a deposit plus 10 monthly payments when buying a piece of art that could max out the credit card... Lovely, friendly, helpful knowledgeable staff.

Organic cotton from Greenfibres

Greenfibres

99 High Street, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5PF

phone: 01803 868001
Greenfibres is a Devon company with a small team and few corporate ambitions. The benefit of this is we can give you a dedicated personal service, beautiful products and no hard sell. Indeed we pride ourselves on our fair, courteous and informative service.
 
We sell lovely organic textiles by the metre, ideal if you enjoy making clothes or soft furnishings and want to be more eco friendly. Unlike conventional cotton, organic cotton is grown without pesticides so is much better for the environment and the people who pick it. 
 
At Greenfibres we also offer organic cotton bedlinen and towels, natural and organic mattresses, organic and natural skincare - and really comfortable socks.
 
We've helped grow the organic textile market over the past 20 years and are confident green solutions can build a brighter, more just, future.
 
 
Lindleywood handmade bird boxes are novel and fun

Lindleywood

Helen & Simon Lindley, 17 Pastures Road, Barrowby, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG32 1AZ

phone: 01476 560707
At Lindleywood we design and hand-make original, fun wooden bird boxes and other products for home and garden. We also use only British suppliers; so we buy our sustainable European redwood pine from a local wood-merchant and use hardwearing non-toxic wood paints from an independent UK manufacturer.
 
Our products are often in the national media, such as on ITV's Love Your Garden and The Alan Titchmarsh Show. They make ideal gifts for all occasions where you want to give something that's well-made and unique. 
 
 
 
 
Shimla in Chilli. hand blocked organic cotton

Their Story

31 Waterloo Road, Penylan, Cardiff, CF23 9BG

phone: 02921 329684

Their Story sells beautiful, luxurious organic cotton bedroom and bathroom linens. We specialise in Indian hand-block prints, contemporary designs and Hotel Mayfair sets.

Our eco friendly products are high-end hotel quality and are fair trade as well as organic, ethically sourced and produced under fair working conditions. Our products are made in well-run small factories the north Indian city of Jaipur, where staff have permanent jobs with pensions and other benefits.

Using a thick luxuriantly soft 100 per cent organic cotton sateen (GOTS certified), our bedlinens are statement pieces of the finest quality. Their Story towels, sheets and duvet covers are produced with minimal environmental impact using pigment dyes which are free of AZO compounds. Perfect for your household or they make a very special gift. 

Bronte by Moon accessories

Bronte By Moon

Netherfield Mills, Guiseley, Leeds, LS20 9PA

phone: 08707 437410

Bronte by Moon is a British manufacturer of beautiful woollen gift and home accessories. Established in 1837, we have been producing fine woollen products for over 175 years and are now the last fully vertical mill left in England. Every process to turn raw wool fibre into beautiful fabrics is performed at our mill, right on the doorstep of the Yorkshire Dales. We are proud of our balance between innovative design, traditional craft and heritage.

 

 

 

 

Eat Sleep Live uses reclaimed timber

Eat Sleep Live

The Old Joinery Mill, 2 Nuthall Road, Nottingham, NG8 5AZ

phone: 01159 700 060

Every piece of furniture we make is built to last a lifetime. Since we were founded in 2004, we have designed furniture collections that have their own unique style, but all have one thing in common; a personal touch from a passionate skilled craftsman. Our beds are made from reclaimed timber, which means they are environmentally friendly. They're also sturdy and full of rustic charm. Our bed frames come in various styles and in wood of different hues and they suit both modern and traditional interiors.
 

Elizabeth Macregor Nursery is famed for its violas

Elizabeth Macgregor Nursery

Ellenbank, Tongland Road, Kirkcudbright, DG6 4UU

phone: 01557 330620

Elizabeth Macgregor Nursery is a small nursery and garden run by Elizabeth and Alasdair MacGregor, and their son John, in Galloway, south-west Scotland. We sell plants by mail order, at some flower shows and of course from the nursery. We produce a new catalogue each autumn, when we know what we have propagated and should have available for the following spring. We usually send plants in spring, March to early May. After this we will try to fulfill orders until the end of May, though taller plants will have to be cut back to fit a box.  No autumn deliveries.

Elizabeth specialises in cultivating violas and she has won prestigious awards for her plants, including the Wild Swan anemone

You can select and order plants through our online shop. When you have selected your plants the system sends me an email with your order, I will then confirm with an email, usually within a few hours.

Kantir water bottles

Martín Azúa

Verdi, 169 22, 08012, Barcelona

phone: +34 932 182 914

Top designer Martín Azúa's contemporary Numbered collection of homewares comprises furniture, products for the kitchen and decorative accessories made by artisans in and around Barcelona.

Products are idiosyncratic but functional and a pleasure to use. They're made by hand, using sustainable/recyclable materials, such as clay, grasses and wood.

Pictured above are Kantir water bottles that keep water cool without the need for a fridge.

 

 

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