Laura Ashley, one of the world’s best-loved fashion and home furnishings companies originates from humble beginnings. In the early 1950s, enthused by an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Laura had a  desire to create small scale prints which could be used for patchwork. With a small investment of £10, Laura and Bernard Ashley set up a homemade printing press on their kitchen table and started to print simple mono print patterns for neck scarves, tablemats, napkins and tea towels.Blueprint Collectables was inspired by how the Laura Ashley story began. These early prints by Laura & Bernard Ashley were in turn the starting point for our Blueprint patterns. The collection comprises of a beautiful mix of archive designs on fine new bone china, which you can collect and mix as you like – a patchwork table.