With just over a month until our first Homeworks Christmas Bazaar, we’d like to introduce you to some of the designers and makers taking part in our events this year and find out what inspires them.
First up is
Bea Bags, a creative partnership between Ruth Hannett and Sharon Chin:
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| Sharon, left and Ruth, right. |
Ruth has a studio in West Hampstead, and Sharon has a studio in Suffolk where she now lives:
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| Ruth’s studio in West Hampstead. |
What’s your design inspiration?
‘We set up Bea Bags in 2007. Originally we started in order to be able to work from home and around our small children - our company has grown organically but is still pretty small.
We began making our oilcloth bags and accessories when we were unable to find beautiful, contemporary practical bags to use on the beach. Our range has grown to include beach bags, shoppers, shoulder bags and accessories:
Tell us about your design process:
We do everything ourselves, from choosing our fabrics to be made into oilcloth, to cutting out and sewing our products. We both love what we do and take great care and pleasure to make sure all our products are finished to a high standard.’
Bea Bags will be at our first Bazaar on Sunday 4 December, 10-2pm.
I hand make individual lyrical glitter word pictures on beautiful decorative papers which come from all over the world . Sometimes I make the pictures with slightly saucy women made with a touch of humour. I use vintage and new frames.
My favourite product in the new font I am using. Very time consuming as each letter has to be cut out with a scalpel two or three times because of the shadow and colours before being put together. But I am very pleased with the finished look. I’ve used it for ‘Oh what a circus’, ‘wow’, ‘yay’ and ‘star’.
I get a lot of my inspiration for the pictures from simply listening to music as I walk back and forwards from my studio in Primrose Hill to Queens Park. I hear a line that I love and think will work and quickly text it to myself otherwise I might forget.
