Friday, 23 November 2012

HEIRLOOM LACE

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In the days after the last war when old houses were being broken up into flats, shabby old family places were emptied of their contents and ...
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Monday, 5 November 2012

QUEEN OF QUILTS

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Jen Jones  is indeed the foremost expert and collector of Welsh quilts and at any one moment has several hundred in her collection for sal...
Tuesday, 30 October 2012

A LADY AT WORK

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   This is Mme de Pompadour stitching away at her tambour frame 1764/4.   One of her hands is below the frame to guide the hooked tool which...
Thursday, 25 October 2012

The MARKET PLACE

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This last year was very successful for Talent for Textiles and we had 5 good fairs during the summer months.   Yarlington and Bradford were ...
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Sunday, 21 October 2012

A ROMANTIC ROMANY ROOM

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 Traditional West Country Shepherds Smock    Have you heard of the highly mobile shepherd's huts that are rolling round the c...
Friday, 19 October 2012

FLYING HIGH

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  I have written before about some of the aspiring and inspiring young people who  have started with a skill and used it to develop into ...
Wednesday, 17 October 2012

LINING UP YOUR LINEN

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This large and handsome piece of furniture is an Irish Regency pine housekeeper's cupboard for storing the linen of a large househol...
Monday, 15 October 2012

A bit of Happenstance

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I have a good friend, Sharon Mrozinski, who has a lovely shop in Wiscasset, (pictured in detail) far away on the cold North seaboard of Ma...