About Woven Home’s founders
Maryanne Corringham
“Living in a small market town in Suffolk, I've always been a creative. I've experimented successfully with many crafts over the years but weaving and macramé are now my passions. I have a rigid heddle loom which I use to weave the scarves I sell, and several table looms of varying sizes to weave my wall hangings with. I decided to experiment with modern tapestry weaving because the colours and textures excite me so much. Yarns vary greatly in type, texture and colour, and the possibilities provide endless inspiration when trying to replicate landscapes.
“I decided to try my hand at macrame relatively recently and before long discovered I loved creating the wall hangings in this medium too. It's a very soothing craft and quite addictive when accompanied by music or a good audio book. Like all the items for sale in my shop, each one is a 'one off', with intricate patterns made using a variety of knots, cord thicknesses and colours.
“I've had quite a creative journey over the years but for the moment weaving and macrame are my crafts. They are different but somehow complement each other so well. I hope they will give you as much pleasure as they do me.”
Simon Middleton
Simon is the founder of two made-in-Britain clothing brands: Shackleton and Blackshore, and has spent a lifetime in the creative and apparel manufacturing industries.
He is a former ad agency Creative Director, a commercially published author, and a self-taught designer, spinner and weaver. His consultancy work with the traditional weaving industry of the Outer Hebrides inspired a particular fascination with small scale weaving.
Spinning and weaving by hand, says Simon, provides a unique opportunity to practise ancient crafts whilst allowing freedom of artistic expression within the boundaries of the simplest technology and the most evocative of materials.
He works in a ten by eight foot wooden shed in his Suffolk garden.
“I’ve become obsessed with the look, feel and even the smell of wool. It’s such an inspiring and evocative raw material, imbued with so much character and variation. Working with it from such an early stage, doing all the spinning of the yarn myself, with a traditional foot-powered spinning wheel, means my pieces are also uniquely ‘human scale’. It’s a very simple journey, process-wise, from sheep to finished product, which makes each piece so different from mass-manufactured garments and homewares.”