Welcome to the studio…
Fabrics
At Rediscovered by, we work in a way that is true to the historical medium as well as looking for opportunities to experiment beyond established techniques. The flax comes from Belgium, the home of linen.
FROM FIELD TO FABRIC
The natural variations by batch (for example, due to heavier rain one year or where some flax has grown under the shade on a tree) provide an enduring connection with where the cloth comes from. This honesty in the material and sustainability of the process is what we believe gives the cloth we use to print on its unique beauty and character.
Where it all began. Founder Charlotte Gaunt started screen printing at 11 making t-shirts and bikinis before mastering the medium over more than 20 years printing. Rediscovered by is a complete passion for the medium, to push the boundaries of print, recreate ‘drawings on fabric’.
This ranges from using traditional silk screen separation and silver and pearlescent pigments to give the appearance of graphite on cloth, recreating the finest pen detail or wash of watercolour. These techniques are combined with numerous hand finished touches, such as silver and gold foiling, flocking, puff binders and other techniques.
The design and manufacturing processes are very closely aligned,with the design inspiring how each product is manufactured and the manufacturing processed often iteratively informing the drawings and the designs.
Inspiration
Our wallpaper and fabric collections are influenced by the natural world, from the smallest insects to vast forests of oak, drawing us in to ongoing imagination and observation of the environment around us.
In this way, nature is a self-generating resource of ideas – the more you look the more you discover. But it is also fragile and worryingly finite, with many of the designs taking inspiration from the delicacy of our natural world and our encounters with it.
Textile History
We are always looking to history for inspiration and knowledge. For example, on one of our wall- papers, the bumble bees are hand flocked making them complete furry one offs. This technique was introduced around 1700 and adorns many of the walls in historic houses of Britain.
