WIGGLETON
Design Story
Wiggleton draws its inspiration from Pre-Columbian artwork, where confident geometric markings and rhythmic linework create surfaces that feel both expressive and enduring. The design began as a freely painted, undulating line centred with a single dot, forming a gentle tessellation that balances spontaneity with order. Further influence came from historic ceramic vessels studied through the Denver Art Museum online collections, whose assured brushwork demonstrates the lasting power of simple, deliberate marks. Interpreted through a contemporary hand-drawn process, Wiggleton celebrates pattern as gesture.
TIDDLE
Design Story
Tiddle takes its direction from the visual language of Pre-Columbian artwork, exploring a softer and more organic expression. While early surface design is often associated with geometry, many historic vessels reveal fluid markings reminiscent of coral formations and botanical growth, it shapes that seem to spread instinctively across the surface rather than adhere to strict symmetry.
The design embraces this natural movement through gently irregular forms that suggest underwater life and unfurling plant structures. Guided by the immediacy of hand-drawn marks, Tiddle celebrates pattern that feels intuitive rather than engineered, bringing a quiet vitality that is relaxed, textural, and subtly connected to the rhythms of the natural world.
BRINDLE DOT
Design Story
Brindle Dot is informed by the same Pre-Columbian artistic sensibility, celebrating the expressive power of simple marks repeated by hand. The design centres on a field of irregular dots, creating a richly textural surface where no two elements are exactly alike. This variation lends the pattern a quiet depth, encouraging closer viewing and revealing the beauty of subtle imperfection.
Additional inspiration comes from natural leather markings, whose organic variation speaks to authenticity and endurance. Interpreted through a hand-drawn process, Brindle Dot balances rhythm with irregularity, resulting in a pattern that feels tactile, grounded, and effortlessly timeless.
MALLOW TRELLIS
Design Story
Mallow Trellis draws from the enduring clarity of Pre-Columbian surface design, yet introduces a more ordered and architectural presence. The pattern is structured around a trellis formation, offering a sense of balance and quiet symmetry while retaining the character of the hand.
Each motif is individually painted and encircled by a fluid line, allowing slight irregularities to remain visible. A deliberate choice that softens the geometry and prevents the design from feeling overly formal. This interplay between structure and gesture creates a pattern that is both composed and approachable. Mallow Trellis brings a refined rhythm to interiors, combining decorative restraint with the warmth of hand-rendered mark making.
BRIMBLE
Design Story
Brimble explores the interplay between structure and ornament, taking its direction from tessellating forms paired with delicate florals inspired by historic transferware imagery from the Briggs & Co. archive. The design brings these elements together in a balanced repeat, where geometry provides quiet order and the botanical motifs introduce softness and decorative charm.
Painted by hand, the pattern preserves gently softened lines that avoid mechanical precision, allowing the repeat to feel natural and considered rather than rigid. This subtle irregularity lends Brimble an understated warmth, a design that honours traditional printed florals while presenting them with a lighter, more contemporary sensibility.