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The Dude is the first plattform by UK toy comany Dudebox. Dudebox Plus is a section of Dudebox where everyone can be a part of the creative community. It acts as a curated gallery of customised Dudes and artist original works. If you have purchased a Do It Yourself Dude and have turned it into a piece of amazing art we would love to see it! You can email images to us at diy@dudebox.com for consideration to be included and sold via the Dudebox Plus department in the Dudebox Store. Felt Mistress AKA Louise Evans is a UK based stitcher and prolific tea drinker who creates a range of one-off bespoke creatures with her partner, illustrator Jonathan Edwards. Originally trained in fashion design and millinery, Louise has brought many of the skills learnt through years of work as a couture dress maker to the world of character design. As well as original Felt Mistress characters Louise has also collaborated with a variety of other artists including Jon Burgerman, Jon Knox (Hello, Brute), Ben Newman and Pete Fowler (Louise created "John Evans" from Pete's designs for Gruff Rhys' "American Interior" film, 2014). Her work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally and in 2010 she was given her own window on Oxford Street as part of Selfridges' Christmas display. In 2011, together with Jonathan, she spent 6 weeks in Japan creating work for a gallery residency in Nara which culminated in headlining the Headspace arts festival in Osaka. In 2013 she was a speaker and exhibitior at the prestigious international character design festival, Pictoplasma, in Berlin and staged her largest exhibition yet, The Hiber-Nation, at the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff. It featured her biggest creations to date Dudebox launched their new range of vinyl toy collectible on May 10th at the Village Underground, London.