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Continue shoppingWelcome to Lizzie Mabley Fabric & Home
About Us
From hand-carved lino prints to beautifully crafted fabrics, our story begins with a love for pattern
Design has always been Lizzie’s passion. In 1998, she graduated with a degree in Textile Design and Surface Decoration, during which she experimented with various mediums and developed a particular enthusiasm for block printing. Since then, creativity has remained at the heart of everything she does both in her home and working life.
In 2010, after her children started school, Lizzie founded Lizzie Mabley Fabric & Home (originally My Blue Shed). Working from a shed at the top of her garden, she began building a portfolio of designs which would form the foundation of the business. Within a few years, Lizzie moved into Victoria Works Studios in Chalford, where she still works today.
We officially became Lizzie Mabley Fabric & Home in 2021, following a major rebrand and the start of our fabric production. In 2026, Lizzie’s husband, Alan, joined the business as Managing Director. Together, Lizzie’s creative vision and Alan’s extensive business experience have helped us to develop, grow, and share the designs we love with a wider audience.
Read about our design and production process.
Environmentally Conscious Design
Inspiration for many of our designs comes from nature, and we are passionate about the preservation of our natural environment. We limit our environmental footprint by:
- Using sustainable materials throughout the design process, including linoleum made with renewable resources, and eco-friendly, water-based inks
- Printing with fabric made from natural fibres, never synthetic
- Manufacturing entirely in the UK
Compared with traditional rotary screen printing, digital fabric printing significantly reduces the environmental impact of textile production. It can cut water usage by more than half, lower energy consumption, minimise chemical waste, and reduce carbon emissions.
By printing designs directly onto the fabric, inkjet printers remove the need for screens and their associated cleaning between production runs. It uses the exact amount of ink required for a design, reducing material waste. Digital printing is less heat-intensive than traditional printing methods, further limiting the overall carbon footprint of production.
Meet The Team
Lizzie
Founder & Creative Director
Alan
Managing Director
Lucy
Content Writer
Claudia
Entertainment Officer
Lizzie
Founder & Creative Director
Lizzie is passionate about block printing. She loves the ‘slow design’ process – the feeling of carving into lino, mixing colours, and the tactility of printing by hand. Together, these elements bring a satisfying texture and sensitivity to a surface. While she is drawn to repetition, she also values the fact that no two prints are ever identical. There is a sense of ‘perfect imperfection’ which gives each print its own character.
Her fresh, vibrant designs and fabrics are inspired by her love of gardens and the countryside of the Cotswolds, where she is based, and the colour, pattern, rhythm, and richness of rural life.
Lizzie works across two studio spaces. Her pottery studio is nestled into the corner of her garden, while her fabric design studio is located in Victoria Works Studios, an old chair factory repurposed to house a lively community of creatives. This balance of calm solitude and social creativity plays a key role in her process.
More recently, Lizzie has been working with clay as a surface for her lino prints, creating ceramic pieces embossed with her designs. These add a new dimension to her collection of hand-printed and digitally printed homeware.
Outside of her studios, Lizzie is an avid gardener, spending weekends turning over her compost heaps, watching
seeds sprout, and planting abundant floral beds.
Photo Credit: Britt Willoughby
Alan
Managing Director
Originally from a background in manufacturing and business, Alan has spent nearly thirty years running start-up, growth, and turnaround businesses. His experience spans book publishing, print, and industrial manufacturing, with a specialism in operations.
Alan has a particular interest in how things work – the systems and processes that bring the many moving parts of a business together. He enjoys a challenge, taking satisfaction in solving problems and seeing things through to completion.
Alan has been connected to Lizzie Mabley Fabric & Home since the very beginning, but only formally joined the business in 2026. He and Lizzie met while she was at university, and their long-standing relationship brings a natural understanding to how they work as a team. Together, they combine Lizzie’s creative direction with Alan’s operational and business expertise.
When not in his office, he can be found out on one of his bikes or tinkering in his garage.
Lucy
Content Writer
Lucy is our Content Writer, helping to craft the words behind the brand across the website, product descriptions, and communications. Having graduated in 2025 with a degree in Creative Writing, she enjoys the process of shaping written content and telling the stories behind our designs.
Lucy has grown up alongside the business and has seen it evolve over the years, watching as early ideas became finished products and pencil sketches developed into full designs. This long-standing familiarity gives her a natural connection and understanding of the brand’s story that she hopes is translated into her writing.
As an enthusiastic walker, Lucy’s ideal weekend is spent up a mountain, but a bookshop is an acceptable alternative.
Photo Credit: Eliot Ely
Claudia
Entertainment Officer
An expert in getting in the way, Claudia is responsible for boosting morale, supervising operations, and ensuring everyone knows when it’s food time. Her skills include sleeping, pestering, and occasional bursts of energy. She takes her role in the business very seriously.
