My studio is a 75 year old California Bungalow. It was built near the end of the Arts & Crafts period of the early 20th Century.
The A & C style is both architectural and decorative and while A & C and bungalow homes are evident in virtually every community in our country, the revival of the style has concentrated mainly on furniture and decorative pottery.
As a needleworker, I wanted designs I could use to give A & C flavor to the studio and my home. Home Decorative Arts, as needlework was called early in this century, drew on natural subjects and used a lovely palette of colors.
Because tile and pottery were such hallmarks of the era, I chose to design this collection in tile form so you may mix and match to create your own A &C works.
There are flora and fauna, mottoes from the period, borders, and the calligrafied alphabet used by the premier Arts & Crafts architects (the Greene brothers) to notate their home sketches. Also included is a short history of the Arts & Crafts Movement and sample layouts for designing your own needlework tile pieces.

Where to start? Try a simple but elegant "Home Sweet Home" for your kitchen or entryway...a motto for your favorite remodeler...a flora and fauna sampler for your powder room...or an affirmation for your workroom to inspire you day after day...the possibilities are endless.

Home Sweet Home
Size: 6" x 4"
Traditional motto placed on the Chicago concrete tile design (seen below).
(Using the Greene and Greene alphabet from our Arts & Crafts collection)

Glasgow Rose
Size: 6" x 6"
After a design by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

Pendant
Size: 4" x 6"
From a sterling silver pendant of the Arts & Crafts period.

Sketch of
American Rose
Size: 6" x 6"

Stag
Size: 6" x 6"
An Ernest Batchelder tile from the wall fountain of the Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena, California USA

Eucalyptus
Size: 6" x 6"

Chaucer Quote
Size Aprox: 6" x 6"
Motto found on a fireplace hood at the Gustav Stickley's Craftsman Farms. Parsippany, New Jersey USA
(Using the Greene and Greene alphabet from our Arts & Crafts collection)

Motto of a Medeival Craftsman's Guild.
(Using the Greene and Greene alphabet from our Arts & Crafts collection)

Work in progress -
"Chicago Tile"
Size: 6" x 4"
From a brick bungalow in Chicago, Illinois USA
The tile is made of concrete.

Sketch of
Rabbit tile
Size: 6" x 6"

An Ernest Batchelder tile from the wall fountain of the Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena, California,USA

Finished
Rabbit tile

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