Our Story

Ashculme Textiles is the culmination of a mother and daughter, whose similar love for textile crafts  brought them back together after spending 30 years living on opposite sides of the globe. A mother who has  spent eight decades with a sewing needle in hand, and a daughter who is passionate about exploring ancient and contemporary ways to hand-make objects of beauty. The name originates from a tiny hamlet called Ashculme – a few houses, the ash trees and the Culme river. This is where Fiona’s husband Cliff grew up and his family still live and it has inspired our true love for sustainable wearable art.

They each work in very different ways, from form, right down to colour selection and pattern preference – with Fiona on the loom, and Roswitha quilting in her own unique style – always coming back to one another to test out ideas.

While Fiona is inspired by the ebb and flow of nature’s rhythms, Roswitha finds inspiration for her contemporary, non traditional style of quilting in the fabrics and colours she is drawn to.

What is Ashculme Textiles? It’s where colour, texture, creativity, imagination, love, family and nature are spun, woven and sewn together – and the finished product is something truly special.