My thoughts on Textile History by Margy Norrish

  • Sprucing Up for Spring

    Sprucing Up for Spring

    Sprucing Up for Spring Every magazine I have read this past month has had articles on cleaning the house and redecorating or remodeling.  Visit my blog,  “Spring Cleaning”, April 15, 2013 for care of your vintage textiles.  One tip, for now, is please check your collection every couple of months for proper storage.  Take your…

  • Gods and Kings – McQueen and Galliano

    Galliano and McQueen This is one of the best biographies I have read in a long while.  The story of two young British designers who rose from humble beginnings to become major forces in the revolution of fashion in the last decades of the 20thC is told by fashion writer, Dana Thomas. Gods and Kings…

  • Gods and Kings – McQueen and Galliano

    Gods and Kings – McQueen and Galliano

    Galliano and McQueen This is one of the best biographies I have read in a long while.  The story of two young British designers who rose from humble beginnings to become major forces in the revolution of fashion in the last decades of the 20thC is told by fashion writer, Dana Thomas. Gods and Kings…

  • Mile-High Sanurai

    Samurai Exhibition Illustration of Samurai Warrior March 6 is the opening of “Samurai: Armor From the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection” at the Denver Art Museum. 140 objects will be on display. Samurai were Japanese fierce warriors, the military elite.  They served Japan from the 12th through the 19thC. Under their robes they wore armor…

  • Mile-High Sanurai

    Mile-High Sanurai

    Samurai Exhibition Illustration of Samurai Warrior March 6 is the opening of “Samurai: Armor From the Ann and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Collection” at the Denver Art Museum. 140 objects will be on display. Samurai were Japanese fierce warriors, the military elite.  They served Japan from the 12th through the 19thC. Under their robes they wore armor…

  • Hairpin Lace

    Hairpin Lace Hairpin Lace (also called hairpin crochet, fork crochet and Maltese lace which is not to be confused with Maltese bobbin lace) is an open lace strip or braid.  It is made on a U-shaped pin and worked with a crochet hook.  It is easy too work and useful for edgings, collars and cuffs….