The British Blanket Firm x Clarissa Hulse Blanke
We’re thrilled to unveil our new artist collaboration blankets – a joyful partnership with celebrated British printmaker and textile designer, Clarissa Hulse. Collectively, we’ve created a limited-edition assortment of woven cotton throws that convey Clarissa’s iconic botanical patterns to life by means of the craft of jacquard weaving. Let me introduce you to the design ideas, weaving course of and the completed outcomes of The British Blanket Firm x Clarissa Hulse blanket collaboration.
This new assortment of blankets designed by textile artist Clarissa Hulse is obtainable completely at The British Blanket Firm
Above: The Clarissa Hulse blanket assortment from The British Blanket Firm
Meet The Designer, Clarissa Hulse
Designed in London and woven in Lancashire, the Clarissa Hulse x The British Blanket Firm assortment is a celebration of color, nature, and British textile craftsmanship. It marks the primary time Clarissa’s prints have been reworked into woven cotton blankets, and we’re so proud to have introduced that imaginative and prescient to life.
“From the second I met Clarissa, I knew we’d make one thing stunning collectively,” says Bethan John, co-founder of The British Blanket Firm. “Her prints are energetic and pleasure – translating them into woven cloth was a dream challenge.”
Artist Clarissa Hulse is understood for her wealthy use of color and botanical patterns. Working carefully with Bethan, co-founder of The British Blanket Firm, her designs have been translated into an unique assortment of woven blankets
British Designed and British Made
All The British Blanket Firm’s throws, blankets and picnic rugs are made in Britain, and this collaboration is not any exception. The gathering is woven at a jacquard mill in Lancashire with a protracted heritage of textile manufacturing. Specialising in advanced patterns and fantastic element, the mill makes use of conventional weaving methods together with fashionable gear to translate display screen printed artworks into woven fabric, all and not using a single drop of ink.
We selected our Cloud Cotton blankets as the inspiration for the collaboration. Comprised of recycled cotton yarns, Cloud Cotton is delicate, breathable, and sort to the planet. The recycled fibres are created by means of a closed-loop system that diverts textile offcuts from landfill, remodeling them into high-quality yarns. After weaving, every cotton throw is brushed for further softness and hand-finished with a stitched edge.
“We’re dedicated to creating blankets which are each stunning and accountable,” says Bethan. “Utilizing recycled yarns and dealing with UK mills permits us to assist native abilities and decrease our environmental impression.”
These throws really feel each bit as luxurious as they appear, tactile, comforting, and made to be cherished.
The gathering is crafted at a family-owned mill that has woven materials for over 150 years. Subtle jacquard looms allowed us to push the craft of weaving to the restrict, with detailed curved patterns and 7 particular person yarn shades in each blanket
Three Daring Designs & 5 Ombré Colourways
The gathering consists of three designs in six colourways, every drawn from Clarissa’s archive of nature-inspired motifs and reimagined for the loom. Let’s introduce you to every blanket:
Seedheads
A quiet, rhythmic design layering silhouettes of seedheads and grasses. The sample has a soothing, spacious really feel and lends itself fantastically to woven kind. Gentle and grounding, this can be a blanket to decelerate with. The Seedheads blanket is obtainable in two ombré colourways, Moss inexperienced and Midnight blue.
The Seedheads blanket design by Clarissa Hulse x The British Blanket Firm is totally reversible, with a fantastic botanical silhouette design
Above: Clarissa Hulse Seedheads Blanket in Moss and Clarissa Hulse Seedheads Blanket in Midnight, each completely from The British Blanket Firm
Indian Summer season
Vibrant and expressive, Indian Summer season options an eclectic mixture of foliage in a dynamic, full-scale composition. Wealthy color and motion make this a standout design for assertion styling. Select from the nice and cozy colors of Sundown, or the refreshing teal blues of Peacock.
Bursting with life, the colourful Indian Summer season blanket options layered plant motifs in full scale throughout the beneficiant measurement of the throw
Above: Clarissa Hulse Indian Summer season Blanket in Sundown and Clarissa Hulse Indian Summer season Blanket in Peacock, each completely from The British Blanket Firm
Kaleidoscope
A playful cascade of ferns and foliage photographed throughout a visit to Costa Rica. With mirrored motifs and a reasonably color palette, Kaleidoscope feels delicate and calming. This ombré blanket is available in rigorously blended shades of pink, cream and gray.
The Kaleidoscope blanket makes an announcement with its flowing design of ferns and trailing vines. It is available in a restful ombré palette of pinks, lotions and heat gray
Above: Clarissa Hulse Kaleidoscope Blanket in Shell, completely from The British Blanket Firm
The ending of a blanket is simply as necessary because the weaving when making a high-quality piece. The Clarissa Hulse blankets are brushed by means of rollers of tiny needles to created a sumptuously delicate texture, earlier than being accomplished with a blanket sew border
Heirloom High quality Blankets, Woven to Final
Every blanket within the assortment is totally reversible, with the sample showing in detrimental on the again. This refined design element not solely offers you two appears in a single, but additionally displays the technical artistry concerned in jacquard weaving. These throws are beneficiant in measurement, satisfyingly weighty, and completed by hand to the best customary.
“We each imagine in considerate design and high quality that lasts,” says Bethan. “These blankets inform story of creativity, craft, and collaboration – they’re artworks in their very own proper and positive to be treasured as heirlooms of the longer term”
It is a limited-edition assortment, obtainable completely by means of The British Blanket Firm.
