Collection: Petit Point

Petit Point. Even the name gives the game away, if you know what to listen for.

Royal Albert introduced this pattern in 1932 at their St. Mary's Works in Longton, Staffordshire, registered as design number 778676. It ran for over six decades. And in all that time, it never looked like any other Royal Albert pattern, because it wasn't trying to.

Petit point is a form of fine canvas embroidery, built from tiny tent stitches worked across a grid. At a distance the stitches disappear and the image reads like a painting. Royal Albert's designers took that textile tradition and printed it directly onto bone china. A ground of tiny squares suggesting canvas weave, small flower clusters settled into the grid in soft pinks, blues, and greens, gold at the rim. Trompe-l'oeil on a teacup. A sampler that somehow ended up in your hands.

We find these pieces now, cups and saucers and plates that spent decades on someone's shelf, and we cut them carefully. Each pendant begins with a fragment of genuine Petit Point china, chosen for where the grid fell and which flowers landed in the frame. No two are the same. They can't be.

It's a quiet pattern. Patient and a little surprising. The kind of thing that rewards a second look.

Browse the Petit Point collection and find the one that catches your eye.

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Royal Albert Petit Point pendants, handcrafted in Canada from reclaimed china. The pattern that looks like embroidery. $44 CAD. Ships across Canada.