How Tiny Tulips started
| Tiny Tulips can be simply descriped as a creative family run company with a love for colours, exuberant & vibrant style, using original textiles into creating fun, quirky designs. | |
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I did my BA in fashion illustration and design at ST. Joost art college in the Netherlands. Before having children I had worked as an illustrator and as a scenic artist for film and TV. But after our children were born , I decided to go back to my roots. The excitement of finding unusual fabrics & creating them into exuberant, quirky, stunning clothes for little girls became a new challenge when people stopped me in the streets to ask where I had bought them. That is how Tiny Tulips was born.
Although, over the years of designing the clothes, I have slowly moved to a new direction: my baby booties. Although they were a side product, these gorgeous slippers have taken over! It is always a thrill to go back to the Netherlands and find new, cute and unusual fabrics to create more & more! And that is most certainly the beauty of these booties; because of the great variety available, there is something for everybody's taste.
I recently introduced a range of cushions, ladies coats, paintings of floral prints, etc. For these items I find inspirations in nature and art. ( most notably the Bloomsbury Group).
Carola van Dyke lives with her husband baker David James, daughter Laura and son Efan, 2 chickens and 2 rabbits in the pretty village of Firle in East Sussex. David has started his own bakery in the village, Firle Bakery, but that is another story!
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