SilkPixie is a passion, inherited from generations of needleworkers. This site combines a love of threadwork, history and gemstones to offer inspiration and information to fellow craftworkers.

Creations include silk beads, buttons, embroideries, ribbon flowers, pendants for earrings and necklaces, brooches, badges and embroidered cards and pictures.

I use age-old techniques to create a range of silk-ware items in Shantung, Bourette, Dupion and Tussah silks.

Included in this site is a full gemstone listing, with pictures and information on a wide range of readily available stones, including a little of their history and folklore, the folklore theme continues with the calendar, which offers a little insight to British traditions, myths and legends.

Through this site I would like to lead you on the long journey down the Silk Road to China, where for centuries sericulture was a closely guarded secret; to exchange gems and Italian glass beads for the gossamer thread, before joining the ancient mariners to explore the seven seas and returning to England to mix with migrants and artisans ... passing through history from Celtic times, through the Roman Empire, the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, the flamboyant courts of the Tudors, the Victorian court in mourning, Art Nouveau and Art Deco right up to the present day, in cyber space.