Category: textiles
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One February Morning
I went for a walk and this is what I saw: Alder, berberis, bramble, cherry, cleavers, cotoneaster, dock, forsythia, hawthorne, hypericum, ivy, nettle, oak, pine, rosemary, sage and willow. I saw some other plants but more about those later. Alder top of page Alder cones, alder bark, alder leaves. Oak…
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On Reciprocal Foraging
We are told to take only that which is given, and when I was here last the leeks had nothing to give. Bulbs hold energy saved up for the next generation like money in the bank. Last fall the bulbs were sleek and fat, in the first days of spring,…
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Zip Collection
I am the proud custodian of an eclectic collection of old zips. Old as in bought and never used or cut out of clothes and saved by my mum, an avid sewer. There are two with the price stamped on the packaging in old money which dates them to pre-decimalisation…
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