Soft launching. More makers all summer.Soft launching with our founding makers. More arriving through the summer.
Soft launching. More makers all summer.Soft launching with our founding makers. More arriving through the summer.
Gem Bowes learned to make rope at Arthur Beale, the Shaftesbury Avenue chandlery that has been splicing line since 1500-something. She works now from a Cambridge studio, hand-spinning flax and dead-stock yarn for dog leads, doorstops, juggling balls.
The bigger dead-stock doorstop. 15cm square at the base, 18cm tall, just under a kilogram. Genuinely heavy in the hand, the kind of weight that holds a heavier interior door without sliding.
Like the small version, the body is hand-blended dead-stock yarn: a mix of wool, linen, cotton and whatever mill ends have come Gem's way. She spins the blend into rope, then coils and compresses it into the finished form. No internal weight; the density comes from the fibre itself, packed tightly.
Every doorstop in this range reads differently from every other. The yarn blend dictates the colour; the hand controls the tension; the result is a small piece of textile sculpture that does an entirely practical job.
The bigger dead-stock doorstop. 15cm square at the base, 18cm tall, just under a kilogram. Genuinely heavy in the hand, the kind of weight that holds a heavier interior door without sliding.
Like the small version, the body is hand-blended dead-stock yarn: a mix of wool, linen, cotton and whatever mill ends have come Gem's way. She spins the blend into rope, then coils and compresses it into the finished form. No internal weight; the density comes from the fibre itself, packed tightly.
Every doorstop in this range reads differently from every other. The yarn blend dictates the colour; the hand controls the tension; the result is a small piece of textile sculpture that does an entirely practical job.
