INSPIRE

Meet Martha Ward

Introducing our second limited-edition collection with fashion stylist Martha Ward – a capsule of seven feminine pieces.

INSPIRE

Pot Luck

Peckham based Olivia Fiddes is a wondrous ceramicist whose work we love so much, we have collaborated on a mini capsule collection of homeware with her, launching this month

Spring Tingles

Inspired by the sun, powered by botanicals

The Spring Wet Spa

An ode to the water element

EDIT

Our Founder's Favourites

Carole Bamford shares her go-to pieces for seasonal transitions

ESCAPE

The Ritz-carlton Maldives, Fari Island

Wellness in rhythm with the ocean

Meet Pippa Richardson

Pippa Richardson is a highly regarded Somatic Therapist & Educator, Yoga Teacher, Speaker and Clinician. Outside of her clinical work, Pippa leads talks, workshops and retreats both in the UK and abroad. We spoke to Pippa about what Women's Month means to her.

Meet the maker: Sophie Lis

Sophie Lis founded her eponymous jewellery brand around the intention of making a difference in the world. Through her deeply symbolic designs and a responsible supply chain, Lis unites her fascination for the cosmos with her advocacy of female strength, resulting in beautiful jewellery.

The art of hand-intarsia

The craft of hand-intarsia, meaning 'inlaid by hand', is a knitting technique rooted in the heritage of the Scottish borders, having been produced there for generations. We have been producing hand-intarsia garments with the same maker for years, and are committed to ensuring the craft has a future.

A guide to atmospheric scenting

When it comes to creating a comfortable and inviting atmosphere inside your home, one element is often overlooked: the scent. The question to ask is, which home fragrance - incense, candles, or diffuser - is better for creating an overall atmosphere? Read our guide to atmospheric scenting.

Fresh Starts

Reset after a long day with a nourishing double cleanse routine to rinse the last traces of the day away. Recharge after a bad night’s sleep with an invigorating morning shower routine, to instantly energise body and mind in tandem. Read on for our guide to Fresh Starts.

Three ways to do wellness this January

We achieve balance when we find a way to authentically integrate wellness practices and rituals into our routines. Whatever stage in your personal wellness journey you find yourself in, our expert practitioners are on hand to share their pearls of wellness wisdom to enjoy a balanced life.

The Spring-Summer 22 collection

This spring-summer we channel nature’s abundance in our curated collection: in colour, creativity, and above all, in the spirit with which we produce our clothing.

Active meditation: what is it and how do I do it?

Active meditation is any form of movement or activity that keeps you in a sustained meditative state and grounds you in the present moment. This form of meditation is well-suited to beginners to meditative practices, or those who are looking for alternative meditation styles. Learn more

Our Wellness Collection

Our Wellness Collection is designed to provide elevated essentials that feel beautiful to wear; smart and contemporary enough to move with you between a yoga class and the rest of your day. Made from 100% organic cotton and certified by the Global Organic Textile Standard.

Reflections on 2021

From the return of classes and events at our stores and spas, to the launch of our first Home-grown Merino Collection after two years in the making; through everything we do, we seek to inspire present and future generations alike to shop consciously and tread lightly.

Home-grown Merino wool: The story

Bamford is launching a first-of-its-kind merino wool knitwear collection, to be made entirely from UK wool that has been grown at Daylesford Organic farm in the Cotswolds.

The making of our button cuff

The journey and story behind this single piece sums up everything we do at Bamford. Explore the making of our button cuff sweater: consciously designed, responsibly made, attention to detail at every step.

Natural Selection

Natural Selection is a partnership between architects Farrokh Aman and James Binning. Our new Natural Selection range of clay sculptures brings character into any interior space, celebrating the strangeness and variety of what is grown in the ground through distinctive objects for the home.

Fortify your skin against colder weather

As we transition into colder months and the weather changes, our skin will react to the new season too. Our Wellness and Treatment Manager shares her fail-safe fortifying skincare regime for the cold months to protect skin against the cooler temperatures and drier air.

Bamford Wool Guide

We love the look, texture and versatility of wool along with its renewable properties. Wool is a resilient, high quality fibre and will last for years whilst maintaining its appearance adding value to the product and its lifespan.

Our first regenerative silk

for this collection we have transformed our silk supply chain to one that is regenerative, one which gives back to our planet and its soils. The silk farm that we source from uses responsible practices such as rotational cropping and intercropping, which promotes soil biodiversity.

Becky Cocks: The papier-mâché revival

Artist Becky Cocks takes an experimental approach to papier-mâché. Bamford have collaborated with Becky to create FORM, her first papier-mâché collection, as part of London Craft Week 2021.

Carole Bamford Late Summer Edit

With the sunny weather set to linger a few more weeks, we asked our founder Carole Bamford to put together a list of her late summer essentials to help make the most of the warm days for as long as they continue. Discover and shop the edit.

The story of our Autumn-Winter 21 collection

Our designers have drawn colour inspiration from Mezzaro textiles of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, finding a curious parallel between depictions of spirituality and connection in the antique cloth with our own commitment to using natural fibres that grow in harmony with the soil.

Sustaining support: a heritage of handweaving

Handwoven and hand-printed fabrics have a strong presence in each of our collections. We wanted to maintain their prominence in this spring–summer collection because of its significance to the people throughout its supply chain, traditions and skills that provide livelihoods to so many.

The Spring: The Water Element

The wet spa at our Cotswolds Spa harnesses the tranquillity of the water element in state-of-the-art facilities. The three areas of The Spring pay tribute to the ancient heritage of spas, born from a collective understanding of what it means to be well in one’s body, and to be well as a community.

The artistry of India: Our collaboration with Injiri

Our philosophy and focus with our clothing has always been to create garments that are timeless in their design and made to last you for years. Season after season, we are privileged to collaborate with Injiri, a clothing and homeware label founded by Chinar Farooqui.

Organic cotton: A relationship of reciprocity

More than three quarters of the cotton fibres we have used in our SS21 collection is either certified organic or handwoven, which in turn supports both people and planet. We have increased the organic content in our collection by 25% since last year.

New Bamford b Strong collection

To celebrate the launch of the new b Strong range, we turned to expert practitioners at our London and Cotswolds Wellness Spas to educate us on the role of recovery in strength, demystifying common misconceptions about what true rest is, and inspiring us as we continue on our own healing journeys.

The Orchard Bar: The Earth Element

The Orchard Bar offers a wheat-free menu for spa guests to enjoy before or after their restorative treatments. Using seasonal and organic ingredients, in-house nutritional chef Dominique Park has created a daily menu with a focus on wholegrain, fresh, locally-sourced and seasonal foods.

Proudly made in Scotland

Our choice to work with Scottish producers ensures us quality that is unrivalled. Their knowledge and understanding is unique; there is a value in the traditional means of spinning yarn and the choice of timeless stitches that allows us to create long-lasting, inherently beautiful knitwear.

Bamford presents Nila

Nila meaning ‘blue’ in Sanskrit is a charitable initiative, spearheaded by the Lady Bamford Foundation and dedicated to honouring and preserving the natural dye and handloom traditions of rural India.

Unit 89: Grounding in tactility

Unit 89 creates bespoke ceramic artworks that preserve a tangible human connection between the maker and the person that experiences a piece. The newest collection of Unit 89 ceramic vessels are now available to purchase in Bamford stores; made entirely by hand using a hand-pinching technique.

Returning to form with Jasmine St Cliere

These tips from our resident yoga teacher are intended to ensure you have the tools you need to gradually ease your body back into regular mindful movement; encouraging a smooth transition until it can once again become part of your daily or weekly routine.

The art of home scenting

Our Garden candle collection evokes the delicate fragrance of Carole Bamford’s favourite garden flowers – English Rose, English Lavender, White Iris, Wisteria and Lily of the Valley.

The collector of future heirlooms

We rely on craftsmanship to create many of our accessories, made with traditional skills that have themselves been inherited. These craft techniques are often a relic of past generations, handed down within artisan communities.

In the studio with Viv Lee

Glasgow-based ceramicist Viv Lee crafts stoneware vessels for the home using ancient hand-building techniques. The slow, meditative approach used to realise the sculptural forms allows Lee to be guided by bodily intuition, resulting in vessels that quietly reference the human form.

Bamford Vases: Companions for wildflowers

Hand-made in the cotswolds, our stoneware vases celebrate the beauty in simple forms. Their paired down aesthetic is signature of Caropot – a producer of stoneware vessels for the home and garden.

Carole Bamford's Wellness Edit

Everything we do at Bamford is rooted in this idea of nurturing the body and mind and building sustainable wellbeing practices that work for each of us. So, in order to help inspire you, here is a selection of the staples that currently form part of my daily rituals and habits.