by claredelatorre | 21 Jul, 2011 | Fabric & Textiles, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond, Tinsmiths Exhibitions & Events
Time is racing towards our next exhibition at Tinsmiths. We’ve always shown limited edition prints in the showroom and now we move into another area, closely aligned to our core acivity as a specialist fabric retailer. Fabric lengths, cushions and curtains fill...
by claredelatorre | 15 Jul, 2011 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
Posterity has just added a stunning cafe to its site just outside Ledbury. A visit to the well-established business, offering carefully chosen reclaimed and salvaged architectural antiques, can be a thirsty business. Helen Creese can now offer a light and airy cafe...
by claredelatorre | 15 Jul, 2011 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
Every year steam enthusiasts from all over the country trundle slowly along rural roads (some, literally travel for weeks) to Much Marcle, near Ledbury and however often one has visited, every year it is a joy to see these wonderful feats of engineering in full steam....
by Kathleen Murphy | 23 Jun, 2011 | In Print, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
A dozen large format “Poster Poems”, with words from Nick Alexander, are now complete and ready for posting up during Ledbury’s Poetry Festival. Having spent quite a few hours designing and typesetting my own “Poster Poem” for...
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 | 9 Jun, 2011 | Fabric & Textiles, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
Tinsmiths Sewing Rooms Cartridge Pleat Heading in York Linen in Red Tinsmiths’ sewing room have developed a new curtain heading, referred to as a “cartridge pleat”. This neat single pleat is most useful for large printed designs as is takes very...
