Leaves & Linens

Another shop selling dangly wind chimes in Ilkley! Leaves and Linens is the kind of place you can find a gift for your mother or grandma as they sell floral tea towels, oven gloves, flower, mugs, and candles. The whole shop is nearly entirely filled with beautiful, colourful flowers but I was disappointed to find they were all fake, after a brief period of amazement! Oh well, they last longer, right? There are real, alive flower outside the shop. The man working there was eager to be of help then politely left me to look around when I said I was ‘just looking’.

This shop is so very exciting from the outside. A brief wander past the window, most especially at dusk, and it shines out like the north star — a beacon of shiny!
Inside it is packed with all kinds of ornaments and gift items, including some awesome vintage styled wire frame candle holder type lampshades, cute garden ornament animals and beautiful vintage style birdcages. I don’t even know why I want a quirky birdcage, but I do, and Leaves and Linen stocks lots of them! I think they’d make a great jewellery and scarf holder, certainly it would look really funky, but perhaps for the more experimental person even a great flower pot holder!
As well as this there are flowers, cards, linens, throws, terracotta and many other troves of gifts and such inside. Apparently all of the stock is hand picked by the owner from all over the world and this personalised sense of style is apparent throughout. Everything you could want for the home and garden are within and there is brilliant advice on offer too for throwing about ideas.
For the shiny obsessed magpies out there this is a delightful shop. For the patient-​but-​gloomy-​disinterested boyfriends, not so much apparently…