by Kathleen Murphy | 7 Sep, 2015 | Fabric & Textiles, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
I can think of no other textile so quintessentially ‘English’ and ‘country’ as corduroy – think farmer, cord trousers held up with baling twine or the upper classes off for a day’s shooting. So I was surprised, after a little investigation, to discover that it is a...
by Kathleen Murphy | 2 Apr, 2015 | Fabric & Textiles, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
To describe something as “chintzy” nowadays is to describe it as rather blowsy, a bit “Mills and Boon” and not very sophisticated. So let’s see whether this is deserved……. Chintz, when first discovered in India by pioneering...
by Kathleen Murphy | 12 Feb, 2015 | Calendar Blogs, Fabric & Textiles, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
Bayeaux Tapestry, depicting the events of the Battle of Hastings and Norman Conquest in 1066, record of it first appears on the Bayeaux Cathedral inventory in 1429. Well, I thought I knew what was meant by Crewel Work, but there is debate amongst embroiderers,...
by Kathleen Murphy | 11 Dec, 2014 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
In this series of “working lives posts” I have tried to ask everyone comparable questions and not assume that anyone chose their career! Cider-maker Simon Day gave me a great set of answers so I have simply given them, unedited, and added photographs. How...
by Kathleen Murphy | 8 Sep, 2014 | Calendar Blogs, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
This morning was not the best time to turn up at Cilla Clive’s Fruit Farm, Redbank, close to Ledbury. Despite the pressures of harvesting, monitoring ripening apples and huge decisions to be made as the fruit market across Europe reels at the fallout from Russian...
