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Cotton Clara

Says it began 2014Where Loughborough, Leicestershire

Fruity Bookmark Cross Stitch Kit
Fruity Bookmark Cross Stitch Kit, photographed by Cotton Clara.

Started in 2014 at my kitchen table with a sketchbook and sewing box. Around 2017 father-in-law Neil funded a laser cutter, run from the conservatory. In September 2019 a Boots order arrived and the business moved into a freezing cold maze of rooms in an old Victorian dyeworks in Loughborough. In 2020 Covid arrived alongside the major Boots order: We hired a whole team, and we needed every one of them. In 2021 we moved into our current studio - and for the first time, the space actually matched the ambition.

Quoted from cottonclara.com, in Cotton Clara's own words. We have not edited it and we do not vouch for it.

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