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English made, artist designed interiors with a twist and a conscience.

The Monkey Puzzle Tree collaborates with established artists to produce beautiful and unusual fabrics and wall coverings for interiors.

16/07/2026

🎂 It’s 10 years since I first registered The Monkey Puzzle Tree as a company!

It took another year to create our first fabrics and launch the website.

But I had a clear idea of what I wanted the business to be from the start, and that hasn’t changed.

We’ve always paid our artists a 20% royalty, and made everything locally within 100 miles from our Leeds studio.

It’s been so much harder to run this business than I could ever have imagined!

But along with the tough times have been amazing experiences which have made it all worthwhile.

With Brexit, Covid, a faltering economy and worldwide tensions it hasn’t been the easiest 10 years to start a business!

Here’s to 2036 (gulp!)...

08/07/2026

💕A veil for your open windows in the summer sun…

Look closely to see that all is not quite as it seems!

Our risqué ‘Body Lace’ voile created with

04/07/2026

💙 ‘Vivid Blues’

Thanks to for featuring our ‘All Tomorrow’s Futures’ fabric in Ocean Blue in their latest trend report.

All Tomorrow’s Futures was created in collaboration with lino cut artist and is a celebration of nature where all is not quite how it first seems.

Woven from European sourced linen and cotton yarns in a local mill, and screen printed in Carlisle.

Suitable for upholstery, curtains and blinds.

28/06/2026

Sometimes we’re lucky enough to find a client who loves everything we’ve done…

This Islington townhouse, designed by with plentiful input from its creative owners, used almost every design we had at the time.

I bumped into our client recently and she told me how much she still loves waking up to our designs, six years on, so nice to hear 🥰

Our latest fabrics have been used in their house in Provence. As a tiny business it’s wonderful to have such support, it means the world to us!

Professional photography by

25/06/2026

🌳 🐳 🐍 A celebration of nature…With a twist if you look hard enough!

Our gorgeous ‘All Tomorrow’s Futures’ fabric, created with linocut artist explores the juxtaposition between the natural and human worlds with a playful sense of humour.

🏆Woven in Lancashire from European sourced cotton and linen, and printed in Carlisle, this fabric is a work of art, and was awarded a in 2022.

22/06/2026

🌞 Summer evenings sat round the dinner table…

I love the use of our ‘Hit the North’ real cork wallpaper in this dining area in an Amsterdam home.

🏆Created in collaboration with 2019, this award winning design is still a best seller for us, bringing unique character to spaces from Texas to Thailand and everywhere in between!

21/06/2026

🔍 Wallpaper espionage!

…The flip side of doing the right thing

In a heart stopping moment last week, I was contacted by one of our suppliers to tell me that someone had tried to buy our wallpaper direct from the factory.

They were posing as one of our collaborating artists!

Since I started our business in 2016 I’ve been completely open about our supply chain.

And as we’re proud of our wonderful suppliers we list each manufacturer of each product on our website.

As seen with the very sad closure of Denby Pottery this month after 217 years, it’s so important to support manufacturing in this country or we will loose it for ever.

I have personal experience of a mill closure and redundancy, and I know how devastating that can be to a community, as well as the loss of skills that are very hard to replace

We manufacture all of our designs in the North of England, within 100 miles of our Leeds based studio.

But what I’ve taken from this is that our wonderful supplier didn’t take the money, they came to me first to check 🥰

And it’s that relationship that counts for everything.

So our supply chain transparency will remain.

14/06/2026

🎸 After an almost 30 year break I’ve been persuaded to pick up my pink glittery bass guitar and rejoin Mr Puzzle’s punk band for a reunion gig this week.

The Crabs will be playing at the in Leeds this Friday 19th June , link for tickets in comments

Our risqué ‘Maitrise’ wallpaper created with

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http://www.themonkeypuzzletree.com/

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