G P & J Baker
GP and J Baker put 18 designs through the needle in Winslow
Winslow is an embroidery collection first and a pattern collection second, which is the distinction worth holding on to: the brand's own framing is a range of stitch techniques, swirling botanical trails, geometric stitchwork and expansive suzani motifs, carrying English garden hydrangeas, winding trails and Chinoiserie peonies. Eighteen designs across roughly thirty colourways, among them Winterton and Leighton in red and green, Suzani Stitch in blue and jewel, Art Stitch in aqua and ochre or rose and blue, Rosa in soft blue, blush and sage, and Aylsham in green and rose, plus one wallpaper, Apsley in green and blue, so a scheme can carry the motif onto the walls without a second supplier. The designer's read is that stitch does something print cannot, holding light and casting its own small shadow, so an embroidered cloth keeps working in a north-facing room where a flat print goes dead; it also costs and leads differently from print, so price the curtain before the client falls for the sample, and check the colourway count, because several of these run to one only.
