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India Holmes

India Holmes

Creative Director and co-founder of Pelican House Rugs, formerly Design Director of Embroidery at de Gournay.

Sep 22, 2026

25:54
And it does feel like you lean into history a bit, but it'd be great to hear about that.
25:59
Yeah, I think certainly in today's world, we're very lucky that we have so much more access to kind of archives of design from all around the world and all cultures, so much more access than even 50 or 100 years ago.
26:14
So...
26:17
I think Bella and I are both very drawn to, well, we have been in our previous collections, very drawn to the places that we work initially.
26:25
That always felt like a natural starting point.
26:28
So finding inspiration in India, Nepal and Turkey, taking motifs from India.
26:34
Things that we've seen there, I remember one of our first designs came from a journey I used to make every day.

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37:16
Do you want to go first, Cynthia? Yeah,

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