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I’ve just discovered Rachael Howard. How cool is she? She has created a tie collection out of doodles she first created and then screen-printed onto fabric. O for Oar-some, I reckon. A creative and commercially savvy woman who makes money out of her doodling. Just brilliant.
Of course, it’s not quite that simple…
Rachael had early success designing tie collections for Paul Smith. Her own tie collections are hand screen-printed, using water-soluble dyes on to natural linen.

(Image © Rachael Howard)

(Image © Rachael Howard)

(Image © Rachael Howard)
She was also one of the Royal College Of Arts first six Embroidery post graduates in 1992. Since then she has become renowned for devising new ways of combining screen-printed drawings with appliquéd fabrics and machine embroidery. Rachael has been involved in a variety of projects, including the prestigious Jerwood Textiles Prize (1997) for which she was short-listed..
She has a fascination with drawing, particularly people , observing their postures, expressions and actions in spontaneous sketches – often humorous studies of human behaviour. These drawings are translated into graphic, screen-printed, appliquéd and machine embroidered narrative images – beautifully crafted and exactingly worked motifs. Howard expresses events through drawing, fabrics and stitch, using image, text and object to tell – often autobiographical – stories of the everyday.
I’d like to learn more about her work BUT the only website I can find is her tie collections here. Rachael Howard, why don’t you have a website detailing more of your fabulous work…?
Haa, love the doggie one! 😉
Cute, isn’t it?
A great idea for those dads who always manage to get ink on their ties!! he dog tie is great too.
If you follow that theory, BCD, a great product idea would be the pre-stained t-shirt, for the man who drops his food down his front…
There a complete buisness is starting to evolve
Great find! What a FAB idea. I love the “doodle” ties. Especially the ones with the tic-tac-toe doodles. Off now to check out the website! T.
Isn’t it a cool idea, T? Another one of those ‘why couldn’t I come up with something like that‘ moments…
no more doodling on the notepad in boring meetings! use your tie 😉 very imaginative!
…my doodling doesn’t look that cool