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TOFT
was founded by Kerry Lord in 2006 and is home to the luxury TOFT brand of 100% luxury wool yarn. A British DIY knitwear and wool company, TOFT offers alpaca and wool knitting yarns along with exclusive easy-to-make knitting and crochet patterns, projects and complete kits. TOFT is also the face of Kerry Lord’s best-selling Edward’s Menagerie crochet pattern series, a collection of animals, birds, monsters and dolls designed by Kerry Lord herself.
TOFT works with BIDBI to produce bags of a variety of shapes, sizes and uses, from tote bags that contain premium toy stuffing to
supersize shopper bags
that can fit our customers’ yarn bundles (and more!) inside. We have most recently designed some really lovely limited edition black zipped project bags, which sold out within a week of being released!"
Instagram: @toft_uk
Twitter: @toft_uk
Facebook: Toft Studio
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Estilo String Quartet
play for events across the UK and abroad. We play for the best venues: Claridge’s, The Connaught, The Berkeley, Home House, Peckham Asylum, Aynhoe Park and for some distinguished event planners and private clients. We’re a classical quartet. We usually play acoustically, but our repertoire is fantastic and eclectic. We are as happy performing unique arrangements of modern tracks as we are playing Haydn and Mozart! We work with a string quartet arranger called Michelle Taylor-Cohen who has created many arrangements for us. Think Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Bastille, David Bowie, Father John Misty… We create these beautiful, energised re - interperatations of tracks that you wouldn’t expect to work for strings. But they do!
Since our first album Marriage in an Orange Grove was released in 2014, we’ve released four singles, all of which graced the iTunes Classical Top Ten and we have just finished recording our second album Alternative Tracks. We are going to release it later this year, but we wanted to create a little bit of interest and buzz leading up to that. Business card are boring!
Tote bags
are stylish, fun and useful and importantly, they also have legs! We loved the idea of seeing our logo, our @estilostring4 Instagram/twitter handle and our #ALTERNATIVETRACKS album hashtag walking around not just East London but further afield!"
@estilostring4 Instagram/Twitter
You buy Estilo's music through their
website
or from iTunes, Apple Music or Googleplay.
Xandra from Heroine Training;
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Heroine Training
is an online personal development school inspired by fictional worlds. While running courses online allows likeminded women across the globe to connect, the real magic is meeting each other in person. So, I started hosting literary tea parties to facilitate these gatherings, and swiftly went searching for the perfect fit for a favour bag to give my guests.
For this first physical product, I was committed to to finding a high quality, Fairtrade, and eco-friendly option. BIDBI fit all of these requirements, and the team also happens to be super friendly and helpful! The tea party tour has been to Edinburgh, San Francisco, and Bristol so far, with many more stops planned."
Penny Withers of
Penny Withers Ceramics
runs pottery workshops and has been a ceramic artist for over 40 years, "I make ceramics which I sell directly to the public from my Sheffield studio and at national craft and design fairs. I had been using paper bags for wrapping sales but was aware that these were insufficient for larger signature pieces, especially if it was raining outside. BIDBI dealt with my enquiry in an efficient and friendly manner, informing me of the options in bag size and quality of fabric, also giving help and advice with my design for print. My order was produced quickly and I am very happy with the
bags
. They had their first outing to the Peak District Artisan's fair at Buxton Dome recently and I was very proud to use several of them for larger purchases."
If you would like to be featured next please get in touch with arnika@bidbi.co.uk!
