Together we are lampshade makers, soft furnishing suppliers and interior designers!
We are Ashleigh Gibson and Irene Massey and together we are Lucy Wagtail.
We offer a range of hand made, bespoke and custom lamp shades, cushions, curtains, blinds, table lamps, floor lamps and many other interior decor items to help make your house a home.
Behind our New Fabric Collection
We’re delighted to introduce our brand-new fabric range designed in-house by Ashleigh Gibson of Lucy Wagtail Interiors.
From a small seed of an idea to a fantastic full range of fresh floral fabrics, our first fabric collection is gorgeous, sustainable and available in a beautifully classic colour palette curated to complement.
The Design Process
From one photograph of the Sage plant flower taken from Ashleigh’s own herb garden, she took the various parts of the flower as inspiration and created many drawings and patterns.
There was a mix of hand drawing and original lino print deliberately without much focus on clean lines in order to retain the character of the original artwork. This has resulted in a fantastically, vintage, rustic feel to our first range of fabrics.
Our new range of fabrics have been many months in development and we are delighted to finally make them available to you!
Our First Independently Designed Fabric Collections
Our first collections are Salvia and Sunflowers and Ashleigh is working on lots more exciting designs which will be available later in the year!
The Colour Palette
A muted, vintage colour palette was chosen to complement the designs and create a timeless option. The resulting fabrics offer an easy mix and match option for any room in the home. Vintage, Cottage Core vibes aplenty!
The Fabric
The fabrics we use are carefully chosen for their sustainability. We chose natural fibres such as linens, cottons and lawns and, in keeping with our drive towards offering more eco-friendly homeware choices, we will be printing these fabrics to order. This reduces any uneccessary wastage.
We have carefully selected our print supplier to ensure that the inks and pigments used for our fabrics are OEKO-TEX Eco Passport and GOTS certified. This means the inks do not contain chemicals harmful to humans and have been independently checked to ensure they have been made in an environmentally and socially responsible way.
The Production Process
We have thoroughly enjoyed short listing from Ashleigh’s many fabric designs. From obtaining samples to ensure scale is correct to selecting fabrics for their textures, quality and sustainability credentials. We are proud now to present our first range of fabrics for purchase and for use in various soft furnishing items and look forward to presenting our next collection!
We also offer the re-use and upcycling of lampshade frames, some of which are quite irreplaceable and lovely! We often refurbish lamp shades we have sourced ourselves and offer lamp shade refurbishment as a service. We have successfully rescued quite a few lampshades from certain landfill over the years!
At Lucy Wagtail we are continually looking for ways to reduce the use of plastic materials in our handmade products. We are therefore pleased to introducing a range of new products with this goal in mind.
Additionally, we are also moving forward to making our eco-friendly board linings our standard offering for hard bodied lampshades.
In recent years, it has become the norm that pvc has been the “go to” for lampshade makers and, while there are some decorative effects which would (for the moment) still need to use plastic, such as metallic linings, we are introducing materials to avoid the use of plastics in our handmade lampshades.
We already offer our linen and linen union shades with a board lining as standard.
If you are interested in a custom or bespoke lamp shade or if you don’t find what you’re looking for on Scottish Living, contact us for a chat.