by Phoebe Clive | 4 Dec, 2015 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
This year with our calendar we have gone for a different format; a folding desk or pocket calendar, each month with it’s own exquisite wood engraving. As ever the calendar has been skilfully printed by Martin Clark at the Tilley Printworks here in Ledbury. The wood...
by Kathleen Murphy | 29 Oct, 2015 | Fabric & Textiles, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
Picture this! 18th century Lyon and a race is on to revolutionise the production of elaborately patterned fabrics. This race, ultimately, was won by Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752 – 1834) whose name is familiar to anyone with even a passing interest in textiles and...
by Kathleen Murphy | 12 Oct, 2015 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
Writing signs by hand might be considered anachronistic but Tinsmiths has had a wall waiting for the right writer for ten or so years. Last week, signwriter Hannah Whaler originally from Malvern, brought her brushes and brilliance to Tinsmiths Alley and enlivened the...
by Phoebe Clive | 21 Sep, 2015 | Fabric & Textiles, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
We recently received some wonderful Pashmina shawls so light and so soft that everything else that I had ever encountered that described itself as ‘cashmere’ felt rough in comparison. I quizzed our supplier Sadhu about the softness of these Pashminas and it soon...
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...
