Friday, 2 April 2010

Tribal treasures

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I was shown today some bits of tribal handwork from North Vietnam gathered by a friend who scaled steep mountain tracks to remote villages ...
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Tuesday, 9 March 2010

Dolly needs a hospital!

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A young lady came up to my stand at the American Museum Fair last year and scooped up a dismembered doll that I had found in a mixed lot of ...
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Sunday, 21 February 2010

Warren Hastings and Daylesford.

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Daylesford Barn. organic produce and clothes Ages ago, I read about this wonderful classi...
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Thursday, 18 February 2010

A really special bit of Lace

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I furnished my first village house largely from auction room buys. The best fun was to go to an old country house where the back quarters, ...
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Friday, 15 January 2010

All about Sheets

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Old French linen and hemp sheets are usually made to fit a 4ft bed, so they are often a bit narrow for English double beds which are from 4...
Thursday, 7 January 2010

BONNET LADIES, May I introduce......

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If I had known how charming - and how rare - these French 'bonnet ladies' were I should have started colleting them 20 years ago. Th...
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Monday, 28 December 2009

MAKE AN EXHIBITION OF YOURSELF

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I have just been reading an interesting piece on making a success of a stand at an antique or other Fair, and thought I might pass on a few...
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Monday, 7 December 2009

THE VERY FIRST and last THING

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I THOUGHT THIS WAS A VERY SAD PICTURE - A POOR KOREAN LADY LOST EVERYTHING SHE HAD IN A FLOOD-PRONE AREA AND SAVED ONLY THIS PICTURE OF ...