Designing Tea Towels: A Collaboration with Northside Girls
Our recent round of craft collaborations wouldn't have been complete without our long-time collaborators The Northside Girls! You’ve likely met Master Weaver Shannon Nelson if you’ve been into Gather’s studio. The Northside Girls is a small craft house that she runs along with her nieces Ellinor and Aisha. Their beautifully-finished tea towels and luxurious blankets have been favourites at local craft fairs and in-store at Gather for years now. For this round of collaboration, The Northside Girls have woven a special run of their signature striped tea towels in Gather’s spring Greenhouse Collection colours.Â
We caught up with The Northside Girls to ask about designing with stripes, working with the Greenhouse colours, and what's next for their crafty crew!
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Northside Girls: As weavers we often get drawn to similar colours and combinations and it can be difficult to push ourselves out of our comfort zone and we can't say that we're immune to this. The great part of designing with the Greenhouse colours is that it pushes us to work with colours and combinations that we might not have otherwise used and we're always thankful for artistic inspiration. We always have a great time when we work with Gather, they have been such a huge part of our journey and helping us connect to the community of wonderful weavers and creators that share our love of all things fiber.
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Northside Girls: Our future is taking flight, it seems that members of The Northside Girls' life paths are diverging and we're so excited to expand our horizons and take these opportunities to learn more about weaving and the rich history of craft that these paths lead us down. We hope to refocus what a NSG product is and we are starting to coalesce all our favorite creations into kits, so that we may share the love we get from creating our woven goods with our fellow weavers community.
Check out Tea Towels woven by The Northside Girls as part of our Greenhouse Collection!
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