Artist Textiles at the Fashion and Textile Museum

As I arrived in London on a drizzly, grey day during a tube strike I had to content myself with wandering from Victoria coach station to Buckingham Palace in the rain to pass the time before heading to Peckham for the preview of Traces. The Friday was another story as I was on my own…

I Can’t Believe I Forgot About Laura Ashley

I realised earlier this evening that I had clear forgotten to tell you about the Laura Ashley exhibition, which is ridiculous as it was one of the most amazing exhibitions I’ve ever been to. For a very long time I was completely opposed to anything Laura Ashley, on account of the unappealing wallpaper that I…

Bunny Bosworth: Treasure Hunter

Every few months or so Decorative Fairs put on a big Vintage fashion and textiles fair in Liverpool and it is always worth a rummage, even more so today as it was in the beautiful St Georges Hall. Although I was on a fairly strict budget, and was absolutely not allowed to buy anything for…

Holy Scripture

Good Housekeeping Step-by-Step Encyclopaedia of Needlecaft, by Judy Brittain. I learnt to knit from this book, well, not *this* one, but the one my Mum has at home. (I got mine second hand on Abe Books, which I highly recommend if you’re ever looking for a particularly old tome). It is the most comprehensive work,…