Inspired by Art, Made to Wear
Whether you are exploring a new city on your travels or playing tourist in your hometown, a few hours spent wandering through a gallery is always a great way to spend an afternoon. It’s a chance to step away from the busyness, soak up the culture, get fresh visual inspiration, and of course, enjoy a browse through the design shop on the way out!
Over the years, we’ve collaborated with museums and galleries around the world to create bespoke textiles. Many of these pieces are designed exclusively to accompany landmark exhibitions or celebrate permanent collections, from Tate Galleries and Dulwich Picture Gallery in the UK to international spaces like The Frick Collection in New York and the Museum Barberini in Potsdam.
When working with a museum, our aim is never to simply print a painting onto fabric. Instead, every design starts by looking closely at the specific painting, or the whole body of work itself. We study the brushwork, colour ratios, structural geometry, and mood, then translate those details through yarn winding and hand-weaving. Subtle motifs and tonal shifts in a painting are built directly into our weave structures, creating a thoughtful response to the artist and their work rather than a direct copy.
This approach gives the scarves a life of their own. For art lovers, they offer a quiet nod to a favourite painter or exhibition: a lasting reminder of a day out. But even without knowing the story behind the design, each scarf works entirely in its own right as a balanced, beautiful piece of woven textile.
[Photographed above: Degas for the Frick Gallery - 2022]
[Photographed below: Rosetti for Victoria & Albert Museum - 2025]
First Look: Hokusai at Dulwich Picture Gallery
We’ve worked with the Dulwich Picture Gallery since 2014, designing bespoke pieces for many of their major shows. Our latest scarf launches alongside their upcoming autumn exhibition, Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji from the Iuchi Collection.
Hokusai’s woodblock prints gave the design team plenty of details and moods to work with. His colour palette often pairs deep dark tones, royal blues, fresh greens, and brick reds against soft pinks and pure white. Translating those visual ideas into a scarf meant focusing heavily on the details of his technique. We built soft, fading colour transitions directly into the weave structure to recreate the atmospheric skies, mountains, and foliage seen in the original prints. To capture the contrast between Hokusai’s flat pigments and his more energetic details, like crashing waves and clouds, we set smooth satin weaves against crepe weave textures. We even mirrored his habit of placing key focal points off-centre by dividing the scarf's canvas and using geometric blocks to shift the visual weight toward one edge.
The new Hokusai scarf will launch at the gallery shop when the exhibition opens on the 20th October. If you are planning a visit, pre-sale tickets are available now directly through the Dulwich Picture Gallery website.
Spotted on our Travels?
Alongside these bespoke projects, many gallery shops stock pieces from our main collection, so you may well spot a familiar weave sitting near their displays.
We have a new collection of exclusive gallery scarves launching alongside several major autumn exhibitions. In the meantime, we’d love to hear from you. If you’ve picked up a favourite scarf on a gallery trip or spotted our designs while travelling this summer, do get in touch and share your photos with us.
[Photographed above: Cecil Beaton for the National Portrait Gallery & Electric Dreams for the Tate Modern]
