Sumptuosity produce small gift items including brooches, bookmarks, notebooks, handbag mirrors and silk lavender bags from their studios in York. All the items feature the designs of Ruth Brompton-Charlesworth, one of Sumptuosity's owners. Ruth's designs are influenced by a myriad of different sources but if they were to be quickly summed up it would have to be described as birds, beasts and relatives".  

Ruth formerly worked as a lecturer at Bradford School of Art and Design before setting up Sumptuosity in April 2006. She says, "The serendipitous moment when I decided to postpone my dissertation marking and go and watch Naseem Darby give a demonstration of freehand embroidery instead has had a profound effect upon my own work."

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