Brighton Art & Design Guide - Cardigan Studio Shop

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Kate Jenkins opened the Cardigan Studio Shop in 2007 in a Mews behind Sussex Square Kemptown. The shop is in part of her design studio and workshop.


Kate had been a freelance fashion knitwear designer for many years before starting the independent label Cardigan which now produces a large range of products including wraps, scarves, gifts and crocheted pieces of art.


Kate says that Cardigan had to be in Brighton "Because it is such a creative and beautiful town I couldn't see myself working and living anywhere else"



"I wanted to create an exciting space to show that anything can be made out of yarn. When I first opened, the products were mainly fashion accessories but this has now grown into a space where I can develop my ideas which have resulted in producing pieces of art which I feel complements the whole concept of the shop.
The space works on many levels - A design Studio, A Showroom & Shop and an Exhibition Space."
Cardigan Studio Shop is open Monday-Friday 9.30 -6.00. During the May Artists Open Houses Cardigan will be open weekends and will be launching a new range of limited edition prints. Kate has has a solo show of her crocheted artworks entitled 'Kate's Cafe' June at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London.


Images Rachel Whiting

Cardigan
Unit 5
Arundel Mews
13 -18 Arundel Place
Kemp Town
Brighton
BN2 1GG

Tel: 01273 671390
Website: www.cardigan.ltd.uk

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Artists Open Houses - Cardigan In Bloom

Kate Jenkins from Cardigan has transformed her Workshop Studio/Shop into a knitted and crocheted garden. With knitted flowers, animals and birds. All the items in the exhibition can be worn as brooches, scarves, necklaces etc.



Crochet butterflys and bugs.


Crochet birds

Cardigan's wraps and scarves.

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Extreme Knitting

FLOCKS is producing outsized knitted objects such as this Aran Rug as well asand more conventional knitted products.

Flocks is the brainchild of Christien Meindertsma who lives and works in Rotterdam. Together with a knitter, a graphic designer, spinners, farmers and felters from all over the world she makes the products for FLOCKS, a knitwearbrand in the broadest sense of the word.

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