Calendar Blogs

  • Tinsmiths Letterpress Calendar 2023

    Tinsmiths Letterpress Calendar 2023

    You may be glad to know that we have put together our much-anticipated Letterpress calendar for 2023; very ahead of…

  • Tinsmiths Calendar 2021- Ledburyshire

    Tinsmiths Calendar 2021- Ledburyshire

    It can often feel like time is always rushing forwards and we are constantly changing, adapting our ways and having…

  • The Forager’s Year: February 2020

    The Forager’s Year: February 2020

    In the second of our posts written by Anneliese Appleby to accompany the forage themed Tinsmiths 2020 calendar, we have a…

  • The Forager’s Year: January 2020

    The Forager’s Year: January 2020

    In this, the first of a series of posts written by Anneliese Appleby to accompany the forage themed Tinsmiths 2020…

  • Tinsmiths Calendar 2020: The Forager’s Year

    Tinsmiths Calendar 2020: The Forager’s Year

    The 2020 Tinsmiths Calendar takes it’s inspiration from nature’s seasonal bounty. For this, our twelfth Tinsmiths Calendar, the theme is…

  • Crewel Work

    Crewel Work

    Bayeaux Tapestry, depicting the events of the Battle of Hastings and Norman Conquest in 1066, record of it first appears…

  • What do Blacksmiths do all Day? Tinsmiths Calendar Post

    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…

  • What do Fruit Growers do all Day? Tinsmiths’ Calendar Post

    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…

  • Tinsmiths’ Calendar Post – What do Potters do all day?

    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…

  • Tinsmiths Calendar Post – What do Green Woodworkers do all day?

    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…