Fabric & Textiles
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St. Jude’s at Tinsmiths – 31st March to 28th April 2012
With the exhibition about to open and prints EVERYWHERE now might be the time to give a window in to…
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Homegrown Woollens
This is just the day, as it is about to snow, to talk about UK Wool. Wool is such a…
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Swatches, swatches. Wherefore art thou swatches?
Tinsmiths have always offered free cuttings of fabrics, this really helps people to make decisions and to be sure of…
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Art Angels – Textile Cards from the V&A archive
One of Tinsmiths’ regular suppliers of cards, Art Angels, have produced a brilliant selection of cards using textile designs from…
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We are most encouraged…
Tinsmiths’ second one day Textile Print Workshop took place last Saturday. Having had very good feedback from the first course…
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Busy Looms in the UK
Just a quick mention, with more to follow, about a fantastic trip we made earlier this month, to the mill…
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Lining up for our next show – Printed Textiles at Tinsmiths
Time is racing towards our next exhibition at Tinsmiths. We’ve always shown limited edition prints in the showroom and now…
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Loading Cartridges
 Tinsmiths’ sewing room have developed a new curtain heading, referred to as a “cartridge pleat”. This neat single pleat…
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Keeping it Local (2)
Following the earlier post about Merchant and Mills, we’d like to introduce another local artist, Michael Birch. A textile artist,…
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Keeping it Local
Whenever possible, we look to stock and support local UK suppliers. Good ideas made locally, using home produced raw materials.…