Hello again 🙂 Last time I wrote about my tannery visit and how exciting it is to find fabulous new leathers to use in my collections. This time I found a really nice new chestnut brown vegetable tanned leather. It’s one of the more expensive leathers but I think it will make fabulous bags so…
Over the last week or so, I have been in Chennai, southern India to visit the factories that make most of my production of handbags and small leather goods. A Tannery Visit As part of my travels to see production and choose new leathers to work with, I generally visit one or more tanneries while…
I was having a discussion with my factory manager in India one day about where to find interesting fabrics. A lot of the time I provide the fabrics for my bags which I have sourced myself on various textile hunting trips to Italy, France and over the UK. I do use a lot of Scottish…
I happened to be at one of my Indian tanneries not too long ago, when a delivery of ‘wet blue’ arrived. What is ‘wet blue’? Wet blue is the term given to leather that has been taken in the raw hide stage and then initially chrome tanned before it goes to the finishing tannery. They…
A funny thing happened a few days ago…..when some people on Twitter started discussing my bags. A twitter friend, Natalie is trying to choose a holdall for an imminent trip to Hollywood (get her!) but she couldn’t decide on which bag to go for. She probably has less idea now after all the input from…
Thanks to a tweet & a blog post from Hilary Grant, I now realise that this week (5th to 11th September) is Wool Week! Wool Week is promoted by The Campaign for Wool and they’ve even got a special exhibition on in London, which starts TODAY, until the end of September. I use a lot…
2011 is proving to be a fabulous year for British made fabrics. This year, I am using British Wool fabrics and Scottish Tweeds and Tartans. The orders just keep on coming! It seems that my designs in Harris Tweed for Peter James are even selling as far afield as Japan. Earlier this year, I wrote…
Look at these totally amazing intricate Tweed cloth pieces from Johnstons of Elgin. http://www.johnstonscashmere.com/ Made in Britian, in the Highlands of Scotland. When to Buy Each year, in February, they have a sale of their fabric and this time I was lucky enough to be able to buy around 16metres of it at the special…
Hello again 🙂 Last time I wrote about my tannery visit and how exciting it is to find fabulous new leathers to use in my collections. This time I found a really nice new chestnut brown vegetable tanned leather. It’s one of the more expensive leathers but I think it will make fabulous bags so…
Over the last week or so, I have been in Chennai, southern India to visit the factories that make most of my production of handbags and small leather goods. A Tannery Visit As part of my travels to see production and choose new leathers to work with, I generally visit one or more tanneries while…
I was having a discussion with my factory manager in India one day about where to find interesting fabrics. A lot of the time I provide the fabrics for my bags which I have sourced myself on various textile hunting trips to Italy, France and over the UK. I do use a lot of Scottish…
I happened to be at one of my Indian tanneries not too long ago, when a delivery of ‘wet blue’ arrived. What is ‘wet blue’? Wet blue is the term given to leather that has been taken in the raw hide stage and then initially chrome tanned before it goes to the finishing tannery. They…
A funny thing happened a few days ago…..when some people on Twitter started discussing my bags. A twitter friend, Natalie is trying to choose a holdall for an imminent trip to Hollywood (get her!) but she couldn’t decide on which bag to go for. She probably has less idea now after all the input from…
Thanks to a tweet & a blog post from Hilary Grant, I now realise that this week (5th to 11th September) is Wool Week! Wool Week is promoted by The Campaign for Wool and they’ve even got a special exhibition on in London, which starts TODAY, until the end of September. I use a lot…
2011 is proving to be a fabulous year for British made fabrics. This year, I am using British Wool fabrics and Scottish Tweeds and Tartans. The orders just keep on coming! It seems that my designs in Harris Tweed for Peter James are even selling as far afield as Japan. Earlier this year, I wrote…
Look at these totally amazing intricate Tweed cloth pieces from Johnstons of Elgin. http://www.johnstonscashmere.com/ Made in Britian, in the Highlands of Scotland. When to Buy Each year, in February, they have a sale of their fabric and this time I was lucky enough to be able to buy around 16metres of it at the special…
