Sunday, 27 March 2011

FAIR PLACES

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  Followers of Talent for Textile Fairs will know that we choose our venues with care - plenty of room for shopping, viewing, chatting, eati...
Friday, 25 March 2011

The Baer News

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   The Baers are off again - this time for some serious buying in N.France at Douai and again right down South at what is called 'le Tri...
Monday, 21 March 2011

STROUD GOES GLOBAL

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       Stroud and the valleys around have always been a centre for textiles and there are miles of old mills along the roads and rivers near...
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Sunday, 20 March 2011

HANDS ON!

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A fine example of English gloves 1660-80 (sold for £3800)  Such a pretty pair!   Both my mother, my grandmother and I wore olain long white ...
Thursday, 17 March 2011

Keep your Shirt on!

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The beautifully made smock shirts that were worn by French workmen during the 19th and early 20th C. have lasted well into modern times and...
Wednesday, 16 March 2011

HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT....

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The next T. for T. Fair will be  on Friday,. May 20th.  at Glastonbury Abbey Barn in the grounds of the Rural Museum   - this is a new ventu...
Monday, 14 March 2011

SMOCKS FOR CHILDREN S.O.S. for ragged costumes

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  JUST HAD AN URGENT (THE FILM PEOPLE ALWAYS PRETTY DESPERATE FOR TIME) REQUEST FOR OLD LINEN OR HEMP CHILDRENS SMOCKS AGED 10 - 14, IN ANY...

'OLE BLUE EYES

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Many of our visitors to the TALENT FOR TEXTILES fairs will have met Jen Jones and have seen her great displays of Welsh and other quilts.  S...