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 | 28 Mar, 2011 | In Print, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
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...
by claredelatorre | 21 Mar, 2011 | In Print, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
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...
by claredelatorre | 27 Sep, 2010 | Calendar Blogs, In Print, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
Our 2011 Letterpress Calendar is being typeset as I post this blog. This year we are delighted to feature Tilley’s wooden and metal type. With such a magnificent variety, the choosing of these large blocks was a thoroughly enjoyable experience . The typefaces...
by claredelatorre | 27 Sep, 2010 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
Not New York, but Herefordshire’s own. Twice a year, Harvest Time and Blossom Time, the seven parishes of the Marcle Ridge, near Ledbury, celebrate their heritage of orchards, apples and pears, cider and perry by staging a multi-venue event, The Big Apple. Over...
