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Tinsmiths Cuttings Blog
The Tinsmiths Cuttings blog is a place where we can delve a little deeper into topics of interest. All the people that contribute to the Tinsmiths blog are visual people – makers, designers and “doers”. They like to get out and about and look – at buildings, at landscape, at art, at life. That is why Tinsmiths Cuttings isn’t just about Tinsmiths. We hope you enjoy their posts.
Included in this blog you will find details about Tinsmiths exhibitions and special events – activities in which we aim to showcase the best in contemporary applied arts and the handmade with a particular focus on textiles, ceramics and print. Please keep an eye on our social media content, blog posts and What’s On Around Ledbury for further details of what’s coming up next.
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Signs of the Times
Writing signs by hand might be considered anachronistic but Tinsmiths has had a wall waiting for the right writer for…
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Pashmina
We recently received some wonderful Pashmina shawls so light and so soft that everything else that I had ever encountered…
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Corduroy
I can think of no other textile so quintessentially ‘English’ and ‘country’ as corduroy – think farmer, cord trousers held…
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Chintz
To describe something as “chintzy” nowadays is to describe it as rather blowsy, a bit “Mills and Boon” and not…
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Crewel Work
Bayeaux Tapestry, depicting the events of the Battle of Hastings and Norman Conquest in 1066, record of it first appears…
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Double Cloth
Our 2015 series of blogs all relate to cloth weaving, printing or otherwise embellishing. The hope is that we further…
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What do Cider Maker’s Do All Day? Tinsmiths’ Calendar Post
In this series of “working lives posts” I have tried to ask everyone comparable questions and not assume that anyone…
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What do Blacksmiths do all Day? Tinsmiths Calendar Post
Until now our working lives have been those advanced in their careers. Luis, at 19yrs and just six months out…
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What do Fruit Growers do all Day? Tinsmiths’ Calendar Post
This morning was not the best time to turn up at Cilla Clive’s Fruit Farm, Redbank, close to Ledbury. Despite…
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Ledbury Country Market 1944-2014
Next Friday ‘Ledbury Country Market’ is celebrating it’s 70th birthday. The ‘Market’ takes place every Friday throughout the year in…
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Bright Young Things: Hereford College of Arts
Herefords Textile Design BA(hons) course has become outstanding over recent years with a talented and committed group of tutors; the…
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Tinsmiths’ Calendar Post – What do Potters do all day?
Trying to keep to a format for our Working Lives interviews has been a bit of a struggle. Visiting places…
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Tinsmiths Calendar Post – What do Green Woodworkers do all day?
Sitting at a generous ash dining table she made in her sun-filled home near Ledbury, I asked Gudrun Leitz to…
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Tinsmiths Calendar Post – What do Hairdressers do all day?
On being asked why he became a hairdresser, Mervyn Parnell is liable to give one of two answers, either: “I…
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Tinsmiths’ Calendar Post: What do Upholsterers do all day?
Sam Prentice’s workshop is crammed with furniture. It’s always this way when I visit. Sam is self conscious about it,…
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Tinsmiths’ Calendar Post : What do Chocolatiers do all day?
Sitting in the Velvet Bean’s chocolate kitchen, beside the shop in Church Street, Ledbury, was a deep breathing moment for…