When, why and how did Wandering Folk first come into conception?\u00a0<\/b><\/h1>\n
It all started when I was freelancing as a textile designer from my tiny apartment in Sydney in 2014. I was always creating prints for other labels and wanted to have a creative project of my own where I could design my own artworks and have the final word. My boyfriend (now husband) Arthur and I would always escape Sydney with friends to go camping down the coast or explore in the mountains. On one of these camping trips it was raining and muddy and we didn\u2019t have anything nice to sit on. I guess that\u2019s when the picnic rug idea was born. I wanted to create a rug that was very durable but also looked beautiful and was practical. I didn\u2019t launch the first picnic rug until September, 2015, as it was quite the process to produce.<\/span><\/p>\n I love looking back at artists, architecture and design from eras gone by. William Morris\u2019s incredible block prints are always on my mood boards. I\u2019m always taking photos of native plants and flowers on bushwalks, flicking through design books I\u2019ve collected over the years and on Pinterest, of course. I\u2019m obsessed with the \u201870s for my colour palettes, but I try to branch out and keep things interesting as not everyone loves mustard as much as me!<\/span><\/p>\n I like to start with a mood board of images filled with the style of print I want to create. I then start sketching out the design elements for the artwork. I do most of the colouring on the computer in photoshop, so I trace over my pencil lines in black pen and scan it into photoshop. I then add the colour and place all the elements together to create the final artwork. I really love hand painting but I\u2019m yet to design a print for my picnic rugs that is actually hand painted \u2026 maybe the next one!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It would be pretty awesome to have a Wandering Folk bell tent!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m still trying to adjust to my new normal as I have a 10-month-old daughter, Velvet Ray, who keeps me very busy. I\u2019m excited to take Velvet on her first camping trip. The Wandering Folk team has been working hard on designing some new products that we are hoping to release later on this year and we also have some really exciting collaborations that will launch just in time for summer.<\/span><\/p>\n For more, visit wanderingfolk.com<\/a> and @wanderingfolk<\/a> on Instagram.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We speak to Sharnee Thorpe, the founder of Wandering Folk, a sustainable homewares brand. Her pretty picnic rugs were first imagined on a rainy camping trip when she had nothing to keep her toosh off damp ground. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,103,102],"tags":[248,249,132,138,246,247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellbeing.com.au\/curious\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Where do you find inspiration for your stunning designs and colour palette?\u00a0<\/b><\/h1>\n
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Please share with us your artistic practice.<\/b><\/h1>\n
What would be your dream collaboration?\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/h1>\n
What\u2019s next for you personally, and for Wandering Folk?\u00a0<\/b><\/h1>\n