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Our recent talk to the Chesterfield Embroiderers "Desert Flowers - the Embroidered Textiles of Gujarat & Afghanistan" was a success - and thank you to the embroiderers who who bought our textiles! See a blog of the talk. See our latest blogs Wildlife Paintings of Ladakh and our Celebration of 50 years since we opened our first shop! Bring a photo of something you bought from our first shops Freewheelin' & Bringing It All Back Home to get 10% off a new purchase.
This week's featured items are 3 beautiful items in blue; a Bedspread, a Photo from Tibet & a Curtain
Blog Posts
Wildlife Paintings from Ladakh →
Wonderful paintings of Ladakhi wildlife including the snow leopard who lives high in the more remote mountains.
We Celebrate our 50th Birthday! →
On the 4th November 1974 we opened a small shop in the Sheffield suburbs called Freewheelin'.
Celebration of a very special Vintage Kantha Quilt →
Both Kay and I wanted to keep this beautiful old kantha quilt that we bought a couple of years ago in Jaipur.
Tree of Life Bedspreads →
Our vibrant reversible Tree of Life Bedspreads are full of life with images of birds of many species, flowers, leaves & butterflies.
Travel Blogs from India and the Himalaya
Raniji ki Baori - the Queen's Stepwell at Bundi →
Photos of the Raniji ki Baori Stepwell at Bundi taken at different times of year, in the dry season and after monsoon rain.
The Bawari ki Bas stepwell in Rajasthan →
The Bawari ki Bas stepwell is one of the most beautiful small village wells we've seen and the village headman seems delighted that we love it so much.
An old Buddhist Shrine returns to the Indus River in Ladakh →
The old stupas and paintings were taken apart by a lama, broken up and cast into the river Indus which flows less than half a mile away.
Padmasambhava in Zanskar →
Sani houses the oldest stupa in Ladakh and Zanskar and just outside the monastery is a huge Padmasambhava statue in the middle of a lake.
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