by claredelatorre | 23 Jan, 2012 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond, Shop News
We are delighted to introduce Alice Pattullo. Alice’s work draws from superstition, folklore and curious, but familiar, sayings, symbols and beliefs as well as astonishing facts about facial hair. I would never have known how to describe the study of beards...
by claredelatorre | 17 Oct, 2011 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond, Shop News
Having spent a few hours in Tinsmiths’ website administration software marking “home produce” with a Union Flag and the slogan “Product made in the UK” I am pretty impressed at the number of products eligible. A lot of our natural...
by claredelatorre | 26 Sep, 2011 | Fabric & Textiles, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond, Shop News, Tinsmiths Exhibitions & Events
Tinsmiths’ second one day Textile Print Workshop took place last Saturday. Having had very good feedback from the first course a week before, this group were equally adventurous and the outcomes were really very impressive. Thanks again to Sylvia Stiff, whose...
by claredelatorre | 13 Jun, 2011 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond, Shop News
Following in a long tradition of meaningful three dimensional signs, we have just put in place our new High Street sign. Before everyone could read and write, people relied on such signs to indicate trades. Tinsmiths originally had a very large kettle (now in Ledbury...
by claredelatorre | 18 Apr, 2011 | Fabric & Textiles, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond, Shop News
Whenever possible, we look to stock and support local UK suppliers. Good ideas made locally, using home produced raw materials. Merchant and Mills offer draper’s supplies with the aim of encouraging us to get active and stitch for ourselves. Carolyn Denham, the...
by claredelatorre | 17 Mar, 2011 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond, Shop News
We have just put one toe in the Facebook ocean and made a Tinsmiths Facebook Page. We plan to use this page for news, events and offers; as soon as we can we will add a link from our main website to this page on Facebook. We have a respectable amount of followers to...
