Ed Kluz visits us
Artist and printmaker, Ed Kluz visited Ledbury a couple of days ago in preparation for his part in our next Printmaking exhibition in the Spring (St. Judes at Tinsmiths, April 2012). Ed is very interested in art history and architecture. He is an active member of SPAB...
Letterpress News
Very pleased to announce that our 2012 Letterpress Calendar has arrived. This year, in discussion with Martin Clark - Ledbury's Letterpress Printer, we decided not to use illustrations but to have a really good look at all his large scale typefaces and to use as many...
Raising the Flag
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 fabrics are woven in the UK -...
We are most encouraged…
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 clear...
Busy Looms in the UK
Just a quick mention, with more to follow, about a fantastic trip we made earlier this month, to the mill in Lancashire where Ian Mankin cloth is woven. Proving that we really ARE still making things in the UK. Sixth generation mill owner, David Collinge, was very...
Burwarton Show Champions 2011
Burwarton Show, held annually for the last 110 years, is on the first Thursday of August. Tremendously well supported, this one day agricultural show has all that you'd expect from a three or four day event. Tinsmiths, as sponsors of the Champion Heavy Horse,...
Lining up for our next show – Printed Textiles at Tinsmiths
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...
Salvation Cafe opens at Posterity
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...
Much Marcle Steam Rally
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....
A Dozen Things to Say
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 Tinsmiths' Talking Wall (for Ledbury...
Sign Up
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...
Loading Cartridges
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 little fabric and...