Puzzlewood
If you are in the Ledbury area, a truly amazing place with some very unreal qualities is Puzzlewood in nearby, Forest of Dean. The site of ancient iron ore extraction, the geology is quite fascinating. Deep ravines with their own eco-system and flora and precipitous...
2011 Poetry Posters Rolling Out
Ledbury is beginning to hum with preparations for 2011's Poetry Festival. For Nick Alexander's Talking Wall, (the next event at Tinsmiths), printer, Martin Clark is well on the way to a "wall's worth" of large poem posters to plaster our alleyway. The programme for...
Keeping it Local (2)
Following the earlier post about Merchant and Mills, we'd like to introduce another local artist, Michael Birch. A textile artist, Michael prints the most eclectic designs on beautiful chiffon and silk fabrics. As you can see, he is something of a magpie, collecting...
Keeping it Local
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...
The Talking Wall – Ledbury Poetry Festival 2011
I popped into Tilley Printing last Friday and witnessed preparations for an unusual Poetry Festival Event in the Courtyard at Tinsmiths. The Ledbury Poetry Festival, which runs from 1-10 July this year, will include Poetry Readings by Nick Alexander in Tinsmiths Alley...
Ledbury Life – The Railway
Visit Tinsmiths by train.
Three Colour Letterpress Print
Eight hundred invitations for our next exhibition "Tinsmiths' Printmakers 2011" have just rolled off the press. We selected "The Liverton Fox" from work by printmaker John Richardson and set about making three engravings from a digital image of the print. Separating...
Tinsmiths Facebook Page
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...
Apparel Apparently
Check our website for a new fabric category - Dressmaking Fabrics. Tinsmiths has had lightweight fabrics that are suitable for clothing for some time but the arrival of some particularly inspiring linens earlier this week have galvanised us into action. We have...
Signs of Spring
We may yet be in for some more chilly weather but walking along the Loden near my home at the weekend there were definitely signs of Spring. So, as I had my little camera in my pocket, I thought a splash of these on the blog might be uplifting. The Winter Aconites are...
Cotton – the ever uncertain costs
With floods in Australia and unrest in Egypt the price increases in cotton recently felt due to unseasonal heavy rains in India, are unlikely to be a short-lived phenomenum. It is becoming increasingly difficult to predict price rises and although we, at Tinsmiths,...
Curiosity Curtain
We mentioned Emily Sutton's printed design, Old Curiosity Shop, in an earlier posting, signing off with a promise to make a sample curtain for the Showroom in the New Year. Miracle of miracles the curtain is now hanging in the "Old" Tinsmiths and we are pretty pleased...