It’s a bit tricky, but each of the posts have categories. 1. Find a category that looks interesting to you. They tend to be topics or people’s names. 2. Click on the category word(s), e.g ‘Growly’ or ‘Textile history’ and a list of all the relevant posts will be made. 3. Categories that are used… Continue reading How to find things in this blog
Category: Sewing
Sewing in the Antarctic
For all the remarkable, if sometimes controversial, things about Captain Scott’s Antarctic venture, when we visited the Polar Institute in Cambridge, one of the little items on display that spoke to me most were the hussifs. Filled with the essential stitching repair kit the men needed to keep their equipment in good order, a hussif seems such… Continue reading Sewing in the Antarctic
The art of sewing on buttons
Therese de Dillmont’s beautiful illustrations on the art of sewing on buttons. Try to chat to a non-seamstress about sewing and the chances are she’ll (or he’ll, or they’ll) wave her hands in the wailing “but I can’t even sew on a button” to demonstrate their complete unsuitability for this sort of conversation. At which… Continue reading The art of sewing on buttons
A home for our family history 