CHARLOTTE MACEY - TEXTILES

Charlotte has been designing and making beautiful, practical homeware and accessories since 2010; each piece made to last, created for you and crafted with care. With a background in embroidery and degree in Textile Design, she quickly discovered her unique style of illustrative embroidery and has been hand making a unique range of printed and embroidered homeware items for the past twelve years from her studio in the Cotswolds.

It is here in the countryside surrounded by fields of wildflowers that Charlotte developed her embroidered designs into printed fabric collections. Finding inspiration in the colours and flora of the countryside, from wild cow parsley blooming in every hedgerow throughout summertime to hens pecking quietly in neighbour’s gardens. Her British-made homeware collection ranges from linen cushions, embroidered linen tea towels and kitchen accessories, to co-ordinating stationery and beautiful screen printed and hand-decorated crockery.

FABRIC:

‣  Charlotte's collection of fabric is printed sustainably using pigment based inks. This type of printing requires much smaller quantities of colour compared to other techniques (therefore creating less waste), and also means that the fabric doesn't need further processing or washing off once printed = use of less water and energy.

‣  We use a lot of linen here at Charlotte Macey! Linen is a wonderfully sustainable and fully biodegradable fabric made from natural flax fibres. The whole flax plant is used in production so nothing is wasted - hello linseed oil and flax seeds! Linen production also uses very little water - flax is the second most water efficient fibre, after hemp. Linen is also super durable, so your lovely homewares are much less likely to wear out compared to other materials. No disposable consumer culture here!