Leicestershire-based Beulah Home is determined to help preserve and further restore a skilled area of the UK’s once-proud domestic knitting industry. Using traditional knitting machines combined with 100% hand-crafting techniques, Beulah Home produces a range of highest quality, luxury fine-gauge knitted cushions, throws and other home accessories from a variety of cottons, threads and yarns.
Cushion covers slip on as seamlessly as gloves, with no fussy zips or fastenings, enabling both sides to be displayed, with ‘exposed’ over-locking seams as another very distinctive feature. Taking just one to two weeks to manufacture a bespoke design, the company aims to put the “Great” back into Great British workmanship, to provide an excellent opportunity. Significantly, create much needed jobs for British workers.
Company director Simone Harris said:
“We have so many skills in this country - knitting being one - which are in danger of completely dying out.
“The factory where my designs are made is one of the few small operations in Britain that still uses hand techniques, and I see it as my duty to keep those techniques alive by using established skills to produce modern designs and create British jobs.”
In keeping with Beulah Home’s responsible-business ethos, the company has also designed a range of cushions for charities including ‘Save the Children’ and ‘Water Aid’. All proceeds from sales are ploughed back in to the charities, as well as in helping to create job opportunities at Beulah Home.
Simone Harris concluded: “We are looking forward to this year’s fair in Harrogate, and I’m extremely excited to be there as a British manufacturer. We’d love to meet any like-minded soft-furnishing or gift retailers wanting to try something special that’s made in the UK.”
Beulah-Home will be exhibiting at the prestigious Home and Gift Show in the International Centre, Harrogate from Sunday 14 to Wednesday 17 July 2013 and would be pleased to welcome you to Hall G101 under spotlight.
For further information, please get in touch with Simone Harris on 07791599615 or email info@beulah-home.com. See also www.beulah-home.com.
NOTES TO EDITORS
1. Journalists wishing to interview Simone about her job-creating initiative may email ?press@beulah-home.com or phone on 07791599615
2. Proprietor Simone Harris graduated from Buckinghamshire New University with a BA (Hons) in Textiles
3. Designs are made from a mix of yarns including metallics and, for durability, cottons using natural, as well as man-made threads.
4. Cushions and generous throws in plain, complementary hues can be mixed with more intricate designs. For Christmas, reds and green yarns twinkle with sparkly threads
5. Beulah Home already supplies products to Wayfair.com, the international home goods supplier and 50th largest internet retailer in the world
6. The Beulah Home range includes cushions (45cm x 45cm) which start at £55 (RRP) as well as generous throws (from £95).