So, last time we talked about how to wash a woollen garment, using Giles’ hooded man-cardigan (you can read that post here). By this point you should have a lovely, clean garment, with most of the water taken out, ready to finish drying. As the wool is much weaker and more elastic when wet, […]
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While the chaps are growing their moustaches to raise awareness and help the funding of prostate and testicular cancer research, this Movember I will be mostly wearing this moustache cowl. Although there isn’t an official Movember knitting pattern, I decided to made a donation to The Prostate Cancer Charity, which is particularly close to my
In this now highly entertaining video from the 1930s, ‘top US fashion designers’ (unnamed) had been asked to design what they felt the woman of the year 2000 would be wearing. The resulting designs included predicting the end of the skirt, that we might wear floaty trousers with electric belts to regulate temperature, that wedding
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Here’s a reminder that there are still places available to attend the TRIP (Textile Research in Progress) conference next month in Loughborough. I would dearly love to attend myself as the conference is very much in my area of interest, but sadly cannot afford to this time around. That’s why you’ve all got to go
A clever piece of marketing for the opening of Westfield Stratford City shopping centre in London, (via The Hairpin) This is a great video of two dancers, male and female, with a myriad of costume changes showing the changing fashions in Britain since 1911. I particularly like the piece reflecting the Second World War which
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