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A collaboration with textile artist Helly Powell led to the creation of a beautiful new collection “The Beasts of the Mabinogion”. As Helly used cloth woven at Melin Tregwynt in the creation of these sculptures, the mill wass the natural starting point to exhibiting them in celebration of the national ‘Year Of Legends’.
Country Homes & Interiors magazine asked Alun Callender to shoot portraits of British Wool Heroes for their 2012 calendar.
He travelled the country from the Scottish borders to West Sussex via Cumbria, Yorkshire, Pembrokeshire, Worcestershire, Somerset & Buckinghamshire and met some very interesting people on the way, and took a lovely set of pictures.
Amanda Griffiths, my wife and partner in Melin Tregwynt is on the left and Marie Wallin, Head designer at Rowan is on the right. I thought they might have followed the example of the WI and gone topless but apparently not.
Here are more heroes
Victoria Stapleton, Founder & Creative Director of Brora – Liz Cann, Design Director of Zoffany.
Kelly Butler, Creative Design Director at Brintons carpets & Georgina Cardew Co-founder of Fleetwood Fox
Fashion Designer Eloise Grey & Jane Exley of The Wooly Rug Company
Jessica Cross, Co-founder of Southdown Duvets & Christine Armstrong, Founder & director of Second Nature.
You can see more of Alun Callender’s work at http://www.aluncallenderblog.com
We’ve also had other mentions elsewhere these past few months
We were featured twice in the A/W Trends forecast by Mix magazine http://www.globalcolor.co.uk/
You can download the PDFs here and here
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Australian Vogue Living’s May/June issue included two Melin Tregwynt pieces within the Maison et Objet report. You can download the PDF here
We’ve been getting a bit of coverage in various design blogs recently. Firstly at Modenus: a networking platform and resource catalog for the interior design
community. Modenus is free to users and very easy to use.
Take a look at it here:
http://www.modenus.com/blog/interiordesign/melin-tregwynt-distinctly-welsh-distinctly-spechial
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Home Shopping Spy: Interior news and views from Ideal Home – Britain’s best-selling homes magazine
http://homeshoppingspy.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/welsh-wool-treats/
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The National: Launched in April 2008, provides quality English-language journalism in the Middle East.
We’re tremendously excited to have been invited to show here as part of the DesignJunction group of UK companies. Other companies involved include Modus, Innermost, Wedgewood, Anglepoise, Benchmark, Channels and Race Furniture.
We all showed together in the amazingly cool and elegant Zegna company building on the Via Savona in the Tortona district of Milan. It was an extraordinary show; full of vitality and stuffed with design, some of it out of 
this world, most of it good but some of it unbelieveably bad.
Of course DesignJumction was easily the best and it certainly attracted a lot of attention. Word of mouth is important here, and we became a must see.
I’ve included a couple of images from the event but if you wanted to see more of the event just click here to visit our Facebook site where I’ve uploaded some more images.
We did this show earlier this year and it was very successful despite our stand being difficult to find. We were really lucky to be featured in one of the Trend areas.
Francois Bernard the designer chose to feature our work in the “Unplugged” area. We had a very long wall displaying our throws.
We used the show to preview our new bag range which will launch this autumn. This is our satchel bag which will retail for £110 and is the on trend style for this season. It will be available in selected colours and we’ll keep you posted.
There’s a short film of the Unplugged Trend Area at Maison & Objet which you can see here. The commentary is in French but you can see our work covering a whole wall of the trend area.
Eifion and Amanda Griffiths in front of the millThe guys responsible for publishing information on the John Lewis Partnership corporate website (www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk) have published an article in the JLP e-zine section about Melin Tregwynt and we thought you might like to see it.
The title of the article is Weaving Magic and you’ll find it here
Just the thing for winter chills and weather (and I don’t mean the tea) Take a look at this ad and towards the end you’ll see a little bit of Melin Tregwynt on the sofa. Monkey obviously has good taste and it’s a great advert. Enjoy!
This autumn keep your eyes open for special events to mark The Campaign for Wool, an initiative championed by HRH The Prince of Wales aimed at promoting the natural and sustainable attributes of wool throughout the entire supply chain from textile buyers to end users.
‘He got together all the interested parties, including people in fashion, clothes retailers, carpet manufacturers and representatives of the wool industry, and they agreed to work together to promote wool.’
Melin Tregwynt are working with John Lewis on a range of blankets/throws to coincide with the campaign which culminates in a special week, starting October 11th
John Lewis are showcasing our products in their Cardiff store on Saturday, September 11thso if you want to meet us and have a chat we’ll be at the top of the escalator on the 2nd floor. There will also be a display of our blankets.
Also this Saturday come and meet an expert! Mockie Harrison, Manager of the home design studio at John Lewis, will be showing you how to transform a blank room using this year’s themes and styles.
If you’re in Cardiff come and see us in John Lewis or visit our own store nearby at 26 Royal Arcade where we have our full range of products.
There will be more special events to mark the Campaign and we’ll keep you updated.
PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR STORE AT 26 ROYAL ARCADE HAS NOW CLOSED
This is just a quick reminder that we’ll will be at
Hall 7, (now design a vivre), Stand M155-M171,later this week from 3rd – 7th September and we’d love to see you there.
If you can’t make it to Paris we’ll also be at the following shows:
(Earls Court, Stand No J1) Sept 23rd – 26th and
(EU Gateway Mission) Hilton Shinjuku Oct 25th – 29th
(Business Design Centre, Stand No M1A) Nov 23rd – 26th
We’ll be showing our new collections in pure new wool upholstery, wool and lambswool, graphic double cloths and pure wool blankets. New colours for this season will include a cassis collection of warm berry colours with accents of lime and an ember collection of hot pinks, browns and oranges.
Alongside our stock ranges we specialise in customisation, short runs and exclusive designs for hotels, designers and specifiers and have worked with companies as diverse as Muji, John Lewis, Conrans, SCP, Margaret Howell, Comme des Garcons, Mulberry etc. who have all commissioned exclusive ranges.
