Little Threads
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Hand-crafted baby art · made to keep

Your baby's first work of art.

Pick a design and add the name. We hand-craft the rest, so you start in seconds with no account needed.

200+designs to choose
Handcrafted to order
4.9★loved by parents
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Name & personal text
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No commitment. You choose the piece & see pricing at the next step.

The process

Four simple steps, from cloth to canvas

No studio visit, no complicated brief. Choose your piece, tell us your colours, post your fabric with the label we send you, and we’ll do the rest by hand.

Step 01

Choose your piece

A keepsake card, a drawing, a painting, or a large canvas. Pick the size that suits the memory.

Step 02

Pick colours & medium

Blue, pink, black, grey or something of your own, then watercolour, ink, gouache or mixed media.

Step 03

Send your fabric

We email a prepaid label with track & trace. Print it, post your onesie or cloth, follow it to the studio.

Free tracked shipping Heirloom tier only
Step 04

We craft it by hand

Your real textile is incorporated into an original illustration, then shipped to your door, ready to frame.

The offering

Three ways to order

The same beautiful pieces (birth cards, drawings, paintings, posters, tiles) at three levels of personal. The more you make it yours, the more one-of-a-kind it becomes.

1Birth cards
Good · the everyday

Personalised Baby Art

from €59

Choose a design from our art library and make it yours. The simplest, most affordable way in, and ideal for birth announcements.

  • Pick from our library of drawings & artworks
  • Personalise the name & written text
  • Choose your colour palette

Ordering announcements in bulk? See volume pricing →

Start with a library design
★ Most popular
2Baby poster
Better · the favourite

Personalised, with embroidery

from €99

Everything above, plus real fabric brought into the artwork. Pick from our curated fabric library for texture and pattern that's truly yours.

  • Everything in Personalised Baby Art
  • Name, written text & colours
  • Add fabrics from our library onto the piece
Add embroidery to your piece
3Paintings
Best · the heirloom

Your own fabrics, embedded in the art piece

from €299

The most personal of all. Send us the clothes they outgrew and we paint the real cloth into an original artwork you'll keep forever.

  • Everything in levels 1 & 2
  • Send in your own fabrics, painted onto the art
  • Hand-finished, one of a kind
Send your own fabric

The collection

Browse the art pieces

Every piece is one of a kind and made around the fabric you send. Prices include the hand illustration, materials and tracked return shipping.

A6 · keepsake
Baby card

Custom Baby Card

A small hand-finished card with a snippet of your fabric, a tender first keepsake or a birth announcement.

€400Personalise
Ink · paper
Drawing

Custom Drawing

A fine ink or pencil drawing on paper, delicate line-work around the cloth you love.

€600Personalise
Watercolour
Painting

Painting

A soft watercolour original, your fabric woven into the scene by hand.

€800Personalise
Heirloom
Canvas

Canvas

A large heirloom canvas, made to hang and to keep for a lifetime.

€1200Personalise
Made to measure
Birth poster

Birth Poster

A made-to-measure birth poster with the name, date and details you choose.

€650Personalise
Ceramic · keepsake
Birth tile

Birth Tile

A hand-decorated ceramic tile, a small keepsake for shelf or wall.

€350Personalise
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The original Babyarts

Customized Baby Art

Our signature commission, the experience on the homepage today, now the most personal of the three ways. Choose your piece, your colours and the name, then send us the little clothes that matter. We hand-paint your own fabrics into an original you'll keep forever.

  • Baby card · drawing · painting · canvas · poster · tile
  • Your palette, the baby's name, your words
  • Your own fabrics, painted into the piece
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Happy parents

Loved by families across Europe

Real stories from parents who turned a favourite design, or a tiny outfit, into something to keep.

★★★★★
“We sent in the little cardigan she came home in, and now it’s a painting above her cot. I cried when it arrived.”
SSophie & TomCanvas · Amsterdam
★★★★★
“Ordered the birth card as our announcement. Everyone asked where we had it made. The name detail is perfect.”
MMartaBaby card · Milan
★★★★★
“The nursery poster pulled the whole room together. Beautiful colours, exactly the sage we asked for.”
LLenaBirth poster · Berlin
★★★★★
“A drawing of his first teddy, kept forever. The hand-crafted quality is obvious the moment you open it.”
JJulie & SamDrawing · Rotterdam
★★★★★
“Warm and personal from start to finish. The tracked label made sending our fabric completely effortless.”
FFleurPainting · Utrecht
★★★★★
“A tile with our twins’ names and birth details. Such a thoughtful heirloom, we ordered two.”
AAnnaBirth tile · Antwerp

4.9 / 5 average from 300+ hand-crafted orders

From the journal

Ideas & stories

Guides to choosing a meaningful keepsake, from a new-baby gift that lasts to art for the nursery.

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Browse by theme All New-baby gifts Gift ideas Birth Nursery Boy Girl Pregnancy Keepsake
Ideas & stories
New-baby gift

An original new-baby gift with a name
Ideas & stories
Birth

A birth poster, made to measure
Ideas & stories
Nursery

Art for the nursery, painted to order

Ready when you are

Turn a little outfit into a forever piece.

Start your commission in a couple of minutes. You’ll get a tracked label by email and we’ll take it from there.

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FAQ

Good to know

What is Little Threads?

Little Threads turns your baby's real fabric, a onesie, blanket or outgrown dress, into an original, hand-painted keepsake you can frame and keep.

What can I send in?

A onesie, a piece of clothing such as an outgrown dress or cardigan, or a piece of fabric like a swaddle or the corner of a blanket.

How do I send my fabric?

After you order, we email you a free prepaid, tracked shipping label. Print it, post your fabric, and follow it all the way to the studio.

How much does a piece cost?

Pieces range from €350 to €1200 depending on size and medium. Every price includes the hand illustration, materials and tracked return shipping.

How is each piece made and shipped?

Every piece is made to order and painted by hand, then shipped to your door with free tracked shipping within the EU, ready to frame.

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