Actor Hugh Grant owns one, so does singer Tori Amos and chart topper Daniel Bedingfield has bought one for his home. Last year, there was even one in the Big Brother house.

After art school in both Halifax and Bradford Dudley went to London where he was part of a design group with fellow artists Douglas Binder (now Curator at Dean Clough in Halifax and David Vaughan (father of actress Sadie Frost). Binder Edwards & Vaughan (BEV) painted murals in and on houses, designed furniture and light shows as well as customising cars.

Dudley Edwards painting Paul McCartney's piano

The first of the light shows in the Roundhouse (a former London tram shed turned psychedelic central) was accompanied by live music by Paul McCartney, Jimi Hendrix and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.

After leaving BEV Dudley acted as a one of the consultants at the initial stage of the Beatles' film Yellow Submarine, working with Lennon, McCartney and manager Brian Epstein. He went on to direct his own film Fred produced by The Who's Pete Townshend.

Dudley Edwards today

Dudley says: "I was doing murals for the Beatles. I did a mural in Paul's house and I lived with him for six months and then a mural in Ringo's house too when I lived with him for six months. This was at the time of Sergeant Pepper. Originally Paul asked me to stay with him and I realised after a short time that Jane Asher was away in America doing some theatrical production and that he didn't really want me to paint a mural, he just wanted company because every time I got started painting Paul would say, 'Come on, let's go off to the recording studio! Come on, lets go off to a nightclub! I've got a meeting with Epstein, will you come along?

Dudley worked on the initial concept for the animated film Yellow Submarine

"I was just a friend really but after Jane came back he told me Ringo wanted a mural and I went over to live with Ringo. I found out that Ringo didn't want a companion, he actually wanted a mural painting."

Dudley did not confine his painting to other people's walls: "I was actually painting a car for a guy called Tara Browne [heir to the Guiness fortune] and he was the one who was mentioned [in A Day In The Life] on the Sergeant Pepper track blowing his mind out in his car. He actually got killed in a car crash. We were painting Tara's car and Tara was a close friend of Paul's."

Tori Amos' carpet: "Instead of carving with hedge-clippers we carve with sheep-shears."

Madelaine explains how the couple got into rug design: "I became interested in textiles when I moved up to Yorkshire. I met Dudley in London where I was illustrating children's books and he was doing the same kind of work. When I moved to Yorkshire I wanted to find out what the local culture was and I became very interested in wool and spinning and that grew into doing tufted rugs and the ideas developed from there."

The couple found that rug design was easier to combine with bringing up children than illustration work. Madelaine talks about their technique: "If you can imagine an image like a labyrinth...well, instead of carving with hedge-clippers we carve with sheep-shears."

Madelaine Edwards

As well as doing exclusive rugs for the stars some repeat designs are done for top-of-the-market major stores. It can take as many as 60 designs before they arrive at their first blueprint for a rug. Often they take account of where the rug is designed to go and frequently work with architects.

Dudley talks about how they arrive at their patterns: "You record an image mentally and it could be anything from things in nature to other people's art work. I don't mean contemporary artists. I always think why look at contemporary work when you can stand on the shoulders of giants, as they say, so we could be looking at anything - Seurat, Bonnard, people like that - as well as nature..."

He compares working with architects on rug design to being a session musician: "(Bands) would expect you to bring what was unique about yourself but at the same time you'd create something really different by listening to what they were producing and improvising with that. We do that visually with interior designers and architects."

Summer Of Love runs at the Tate Liverpool until September 25 while Madelaine and Dudley Edwards textiles feature in the exhibition Op & Pop 1960 to 2005 at the 108 Fine Art in Harrogate until June 19th (Saturdays 10 - 5pm. Monday - Friday by appointment.)