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 | 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...
by claredelatorre | 23 May, 2011 | Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
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...
by claredelatorre | 12 May, 2011 | In Print, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond, Tinsmiths Exhibitions & Events
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...
by claredelatorre | 6 May, 2011 | Designers & Makers, Fabric & Textiles, Out & about in Herefordshire & beyond
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,...
