![\"\"](\"https:\/\/greenplumdesign.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/IMG_3194.jpg\" "\\"September")
<\/a><\/p>\nOn what I think is my last hydrangea to blossom this year.<\/p>\n
Autumn is nipping at our heals.<\/p>\n But for right now…a new subject…<\/p>\n Have you noticed that so much of what is in fashion at the moment was once a functional, workman like product that was not primarily meant to look pretty but just get on and do the job?<\/p>\n You know…like steel lamps and tables, wire books cases, concrete floors and counters – things made from strong, \u00a0durable materials…<\/p>\n Even the metal stools that I used to sit on in Physics and Chemistry are now featured in all the grooviest stores with a hefty price tag dangling ( let’s hope they’ve scraped all the gum from under the seat…)<\/p>\n What we are looking at here is a welcome rise in the popularity of industrial design….and one of the happy spin offs is the impact it’s made in the world of textiles with the growing prevalence of the workman like burlap<\/a>…<\/p>\n Most famously, we think of the large old burlap coffee sacks that held together many a bean with it’s coarse and breathable weave.<\/p>\n Rough and ready and strong as an ox. \u00a0It is sturdy stuff and I love it.<\/p>\n Nowadays you can see burlap cushions strewn across the sofas of Pottery Barn<\/a> and Restoration Hardware<\/a> … still paying dues to their industrial roots with black lettered prints saying things like ‘Banque de France’ and ‘Product of Columbia’.<\/p>\n Anyway, \u00a0I thought I’d have a go printing on this lovely stuff myself…<\/p>\n I decided to screen print some navy blue swallows swooping about…<\/p>\n Here’s my first set of prints hanging out to dry in the sun…<\/p>\n I ended up making a bag<\/a> or two…<\/p>\n And lined them with some left over blue linen I had knocking about…<\/p>\n I love the combination of the burlap and linen, surely second cousins in the textile world – one made from the skin of the jute plant and one from flax fibers…<\/p>\n And with the rest of the prints, I put together a few pillows<\/a>…<\/p>\n For inside…<\/p>\n And out…<\/p>\n And I know that these babies will last…<\/p>\n That’s it from me today – I think it’s time for me to sit on that chair outside with a nice little pot of tea before four hungry people walk through the door.<\/p>\n I will be back very soon.<\/p>\n See you later,<\/p>\n Ros<\/p>\n ps Welcome to all those people from Sarah’s lovely Beach Cottage<\/a> – thanks for dropping by…<\/p>\n pps \u00a0 \u00a0If you would like me to add someone to my email notification list, just send their email address to roswyatt@greenplumdesign.com \u2013 thanks for all the ones you have already sent…<\/p>\n Hi Everyone, Hope you are all good and back in the swing of things? A beautiful September’s day here in Northern California with the light working it’s usual magic… On what I think is my last hydrangea to blossom this … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"