Baby Hand & Footprint Specialist
SPECIAL OFFERS
Get your NCT group together for a baby print session
&
you’ll receive 20% off your prints on the day for gathering your group. We can come out to you or you can pop in to the workshop. (Minimum of 3 people or £180 total spend)
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15% Off Ceramic Prints in January 2019
workshop visit only and £50 minimum spend
No framed pieces available as part of the offer
15% Off “Party in a Box”
See more on or Parties, Teambuilding and Events Page
A BIT ABOUT WHAT WE DO
Bespoke Baby Hand and Footprints
Baby and toddler / family hand and footprint mementos
on clay or ceramics.
Parties, Events or Teambuilding
We love a party
Host your own (Party in a Box) or Get us to host it for you.
Mobile ceramic painting events / parties for both
Children & Adults at a venue of your choice.
Perfect for Hen do’s, team-building events & birthday parties.
Gift Vouchers
Perfect gift for Baby Shower, Newborn Baby, Toddler or Family
Great for both boys and girls
Gift vouchers available to order by phone.
We can post out to you or your intended recipient
or
send an email voucher if you’re short of time
Hand Painted and Personalised Gifts
See our commissions page
For NCT group bookings throughout London we can come to you or you can visit us at our dedicated workshop in North London by appointment only.
All pieces are lovingly finished in our workshop @ The Chocolate Factory in North London.
Blog Post – When baby hand and footprint mementoes became trendy
Britain’s royal family have long been leaders in fashion, art and design, and in launching exciting new innovations. This was due to having access to fresh thinking, being closely connected to the many other foreign aristocracies around Europe’s numerous royal households and to being able to afford the best craftsmen and artists who could create wonderful baby mementos and the treasures they desired. This lead to the first baby hand and footprints commissioned by Queen Victoria in England.
As the recent TV drama portrayed, a young Queen Victoria was one of our foremost royal trendsetters. While reigning as our longest serving queen, she had a strong and affectionate marriage to Albert, with whom she had nine children. It had been customary since the time of Henry VIII, three centuries earlier, for England’s kings and queens to commission portraits of themselves, their spouses and children (and often their pets too!)
But Victoria introduced a completely new idea. She commissioned the sculptor Mary Thornycroft to sculpt alabaster replicas of the hands and feet of her children. She also had a cast made of Albert’s hand. When Albert died, the distraught Victoria kept the memento beside her bed so that when she woke she could reach out and touch her beloved husbands hand.
The sculptures of Victoria’s children’s hands can still be seen today at Osborne House, her holiday home in the isle of wight, and at Windsor. As well as being poignant and cherished heirlooms for today’s royal family, they are beautiful and tender recollections of precious moments in time of a real family’s infants from over a century ago.
Ceramic paint prints and clay impressions of little hands and feet are no longer the sole preserve of royalty but have today again soared in popularity, as so many parents realise that no photograph of an infant can convey in the same way the unique and actual size of a tiny new baby’s delicate hand or foot.
Needless to say these days we create beautiful, bespoke and contemporary pieces that add something special to any family home.