From someone else's vintage table cloth to your CURIOUS wardrobe.

The hunt

It always starts here. I am looking for fabric with a story — not pristine bolts, but the cotton lace curtain that lived in a kitchen for forty years, the silk lining of a 1970s dressing gown, a wool blanket that has been loved by a little girl in the 1950s

I don't ever buy new fabric. If we couldn't find it second-hand, the piece doesn't get made.

Rinse, mend, re-dye

Everything gets thrown in the washing machines . Once dried each piece is checked for holes or stains . Holes are creatively mended or covered with a patch. any stained fabric gets thrown back into the washing machine along with a tub of clothes dye and a tub of salt

Pattern & cut

As a fashion BA graduate who specialized in pattern cutting I love this part of the process . I have a basic set of hand drafted patterns that i use as and when i can, it is all dependent on the fabrics i have to hand. What ever scraps are left over go into The Curious scarp box and will be used as pockets or patches on another Curious creation

Sew

All day long and often into the eve , on a 1950s German sewing machine that I bought on Leeds market donkeys years ago . I also have a new addition to my sewing room which is a fabulous overlock machine also made decades ago in Germany. As a sustainable fashion designer i take great pride in making my garments to a very high standard This is what "SLOW FASHION" should be about

Photograph & list

I photograph each piece as and when i can in real light in my house or on the beach . No models, no hire, no Photoshop — what you see is the actual thing, .

Then it goes on the site, with a little story

Off it goes

Wrapped up and ready to go to the post box