Following the success of her mini canvas range, Petra Boase has introduced a new super size version.

The vintage pet range can be printed on calico for a nostalgic feel, or as a card mounted print ready to be framed, or a canvas.

Available in 8 designs the Vintage vibe canvases are digitally printed on high-grade canvas and hand stretched onto a solid wood frame; makes a great wall hanging for any room in the home.

This charming collection includes Love Birds, Love Bambi Owl and Scotty Dogs.

Pictured here is the Owl/pink wood - Large Canvas Priced at £150.
Size:720mm x 504mm x 35mm

Web: http://www.petraboaseshop.com

Tel: (01760) 337333

Digetex is a leading UK luxury home furnishing brand, designing and manufacturing furnishing fabrics, wall coverings, murals, roller, panel and roman blinds, bespoke wall art canvasses and a wide range of soft furnishing accessories.

Their philosophy is to combine creativity and innovation with quality designs and products - “Wallpaper is back but this time it’s different - a means to express your individuality - playing with scale and using your wall as a canvas.”

The business offers bespoke interior products, which are individually designed and made to client specification, at optimal standards of quality scale and colour at competitive prices; work can also be created from the client’s own images.

Wall Art offers the ultimate creative visual medium:

Gallery style art canvasses are printed onto 100% cotton-canvas with Digi-Gard for added durability; stretched over a stable wooden frame for contemporary style with no size limitation.

The spectacular murals are all size specific and digitally printed to client specification.

Featured here is the Ying Mural from their First Emperor range.

The Digetex samples encompassing over 7,000 images/designs from Classic Masters, Fine to Pop Art, Zen and Contemporary, to name but a few can be viewed online.

There is no minimum order and prices start at £35 per panel for murals, £20 per metre for fabric, £40 a canvas and £65 for a blind.

Web: http://www.digetex.com/collection.asp 

Tel: (0161) 873 8891

Annie Sherburne trained at Hertfordshire school of Art and Design, St.Martins (fashion) and Goldsmiths (Textiles).

Annie has run her own business since 1980 and has been incorporating environmentally friendly materials into her design work for 10 years and winning prestigious awards.

More recently, she has designed unique and colourful new rugs using a combination of yarns, which represent some of the best environmentally friendly selections of yarns currently available. The yarns include Alpaca from UK flocks, recycled yarns and naturally dyed linen.

Rug designs include the landscapes, Moon in a boat series, which have been designed specifically for city loft-style rooms with multi functions using extra long pile techniques developed initially for Hussein Chalayan, the fashion designer.

Of these pieces, the ‘White Horse’ in our picture, reached the final of the Homes and Gardens Classic design Awards at the V&A.

This striking piece includes some naturally dyed yarns, cream alpaca, recycled white wool, and factory ends. The long, shaggy ‘turf’ laps over and softens the lines of the running horse.

The simple shape of a running horse is based on the white chalk horses cut into the hills of the UK, which some scholars believe to have been ancient advertising hoardings to - get your horses here.

Annie’s shop at 126 Columbia Road London E2 is only open on Sunday mornings with the famous flower market, or by appointment.

Web: http://www.anniesherburne.co.uk

Tel: (0207) 328 2182

Olli And Lime is an eco conscious designer of children’s bedroom furnishings, aiming to meet the tastes of modern minded parents with an eye for design, who want something fun for their children without compromising on style.

The company has now launched a range of wall panels and soft furnishings with six amusing and contemporary designs to appeal to children of all ages.
 
Also, in line with customers’ growing concerns for the environment, Olli And Lime has ensured that materials in the soft furnishings range are made from 80%/20% environmentally sound bamboo/cotton mix and the wall panels are digitally printed to order, to prevent wastage.

The Range includes:

• Little George and Little Billie - wallpapers and funky soft furnishing designs for babies and small children, based on two charismatic cartoon characters:Little George a brightly coloured, mischievous, funky looking cow and Little Billie featured here, an outrageously dressed, eccentric moose.
   
  George and Billie - George, featuring a busy, buzzy bee and Billie, a range of big, bold flowers, are alphabet and number based series to help toddlers learn to count and spell.
   
  Carrie and Oliver - are for slightly older children and feature two collections with matching wallpaper and soft furnishings:
• Carrie is for young girls who adore shoes and shopping and combines brightly coloured shoes with bold, contemporary flowers.
• For sports crazy boys, Oliver features all ball-sports including football, rugby, tennis, baseball, basketball and cricket.

Web:  http://www.olliandlime.com

Tel:  (0844) 561 6781

The TSA is the Trade Association for the laundry and dry cleaning industry in the UK, covering 2,500 high street dry cleaners.

It is the consumers’ one stop shop for finding a good quality dry cleaner and should they have an issue with an item serviced by a member, the TSA is there to advise and inform them on possible action.

With the trend for hunting in vintage and junk shops so popular at the moment, finding a wonderful but slightly grubby antique throw, or rug can be very exciting, however people are often put off making that final purchase, when they consider the difficulty of restoring the item to its former glory.

This is where the TSA can provide the solution, by offering advice and recommending, which of their members can provide the best service for that particular piece.

The cleaning and repair services TSA members can offer include:

Soft furnishings Asbestos de-contamination Beaded Gowns
Bridal Gowns Carpets/Rugs Church Robes
Curtains Dyeing Express Service
Hat Horse Blankets Pillows/Duvets Repairs/Alteration Re Waxing Silk Suede/Leather

Web: http://www.tsa-uk.org
Tel: (020) 8863 7755

galleryonthe.net is a stimulating website offering the artwork of a selection of talented present-day artists for the home or workplace.

You can browse the Artist’s Gallery and New Listings gallery to find your ideal painting, to bring that exclusive look to your home, or for a special gift.

When you click the paintings, you are able to view them ‘to scale over sofa’ and change the wall colour to compliment the painting, which greatly assists making your selection.

Most paintings are also available as greeting cards, prints or gift vouchers.

Read about the artists on the ‘meet the artist pages’ as well as customer feedback/reviews.

Featured here is:

The Last Rays Of the Sun - in the wildlife series by Anne Barron.
An original pastel painting on velour paper framed and mounted.

Priced at £450. Signed limited edition prints are also available from £30.

You can view the real paintings of galleryonthenet artists by checking the current exhibitions listings online.

Artists are invited to join and a limited number of galleries are available each month.

Web:  http://www.galleryonthe.net/

Silent Gliss, together with Swedish textile designer Eva Marmbrandt has developed Vertical Waves; new, extraordinary and exclusive designs for vertical blind systems.
 
Vertical Waves is a series of laser cut vertical blinds in tune with modern architecture, aiming to create a more pleasant acoustic and lighting environment in different interiors, plus the opportunity to partition off areas and create smaller rooms.

Three beautiful designs are available in a choice of fourteen gorgeous colours all of which provide a stunning effect:

Featured here is Andrea - snowdrifts, howling wind, spring shoots; inspired by a frozen winter landscape, with wind-driven snowdrifts and vegetation still hidden beneath the snow. Width: 125-250 mm

Maria - soft waves, rippling, running water; this design has soft forms, which create the effect of shifting light through different degrees of transparency.
Width: 125-250 mm

Annika - thorns, stormy seas; the vertical waves create a striking interior environment, with unusual lighting and acoustic effects that make it possible to partition off areas within a room. Width: 125-230mm

The Vertical waves are made to measure to your specified requirements; widths are standardised for each design.

Web: http://www.silentgliss.co.uk
Tel: (01843) 863571

Original art often increases in value and adds a special look to your home.

galleryonthe.net is a new website offering the opportunity to buy artwork for the home or work environment, direct from a variety of accomplished contemporary artists.

Browse the artists’ galleries and the ‘newly listed’ gallery, for the perfect piece of artwork to provide the finishing touch to your home’s interior décor.

Featured here is:

‘Tuscany Farmhouse’ by Maureen Greenwood, an Original Oil Painting of a charming Italian landscape.

Size 90 X 60cms 36 x 24 ins. Priced at £485.

If you are impressed with an artist’s style, they are often willing to accept commissions, which you can place by emailing the artist direct via links on their listings, or by email to the web site.
 
There are also links to allow placing orders direct with the artist. If you wish to pay by credit/debit card, the artist will send a PayPal invoice; you will then receive a receipt from PayPal and the transaction will be covered by their buyer protection policy.

Web:  http://www.galleryonthe.net/ 

A new online service from Your Memento allows you to turn your ordinary photographs into stunning contemporary wall hangings to decorate your home.

All you have to do is specify your requirements on their website, send the photos to them and they will do the rest.

You choose the art style - ranging from soft, blended style to 60’s Andy Warhol inspired styles to contemporary pop art.

Then you choose how you want your art to be displayed - like paintings on canvas block, bespoke acrylic wall hangings (with pre-drilled holes and fixings ready to be bolted to the wall), as photo prints, in memento books (with 40 pages), on MDF mount board or even as floating images in the new Air Gap Float range.

Photo prints start at £47 for a blended art style, memento books are £350, and canvas blocks (pictured) start at £80 for a 12 by 12 inch wall hanging.

web: http://www.yourmemento.co.uk
tel: (01324) 877763

To celebrate China in London 2006 and to coincide with the show at the Royal Academy, Guinevere Antiques is staging a selling exhibition of Chinese ancestral family tree paintings.

Sourced from the Shanxi Province, these original works of art date from the 17th to 19th Century, and played an important role in Chinese family life. Usually commissioned for events like the birthday of the head of the family, they record in great detail all the members of the family tree.

Male and female ancestors are always shown separately, and some paintings even come in two halves. As each ancestor is shown as a recognisable individual, dressed in appropriate clothing for the period and often named, the paintings are also accurate historical records.

Many of the paintings in the show have been relined and put on stretchers ready to be hung as pictures - others are being sold unmounted as hangings.

‘Ancestors’ runs from December 2005 to April 2006. Prices for the paintings range from £1,000 to £10,000.

web: http://www.guinevere.co.uk
tel: (020) 7736 2917