Monday, 24 January 2011

HOME and AWAY

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  I am off away till the 26th February, collecting my annual dose of sunshine from sunny Tenerife.   I hope I deserve a holiday as I have be...
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Tuesday, 18 January 2011

CURTAIN CALL My 'heavenly' curtains!

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This beautiful Tree of Life design is a copy of a Palampore 18c. wall hanging or bedspread from India - it was copied as Le Grand Genois...
Friday, 14 January 2011

French Affairs

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I have had a wonderful, long love affair with French antiques and textiles - I was first hooked on the dashing, striped tickings used for t...
Sunday, 2 January 2011

BLUE COATS AND BLUE STOCKINGS

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 This news picture of a pupil at Christ's Hospital, Horsham, E.Sussex, rang a bell with me, as many years ago I purchased a similar coat...
Friday, 31 December 2010

OLD LANG SYNE

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   I do not think  'SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT'' will ever apply to my old friend, Bryony Thomasson, about whom I wrote ...
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Sunday, 26 December 2010

CHRISTMAS AND THE NEW YEAR

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      Flowers made with modern ticking fabrics from Ian Mankiin, London Click ...
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Saturday, 18 December 2010

MONKEY BUSINESS

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    The first time I saw a design of little monkeys swinging through jungle trees was down the Kings Road in London. It was on a pair of e...
Wednesday, 8 December 2010

INDIENNE ROSES

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            I love this gentle Indienne design from France, late 19th C. The flowers and buds are in soft misty colours so the bolder brow...
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