Textile Adventures by Jenny

14/02/2025

13/05/2023

On Thursday this was a dress, on Friday it was a bag.

26/11/2022

C&J Crafty Creations will be there !

13/08/2022

Just a couple of days to go until our Vintage Vehicle & Craft Fair this Sunday. 🚗

Are you looking for a day out with beautiful views of the Wenlock edge, classic cars to mull over with your mates and lots of glorious craft stalls to browse at your leisure. Then ,Cuan Wildlife Rescue’s Vintage Vehicle & Craft Fair on Sunday 14th August at 11am is a must for you. 🚗🎨🍰🍻🍸🍟

Event address:
Cuan Wildlife Rescue, Stretton Road, Much Wenlock, Shropshire, TF13 6DD.

25/07/2022

I love the stories that occasionally accompany surviving garments. There are two possibly conflicting tales of this one. During WWI, while her son was convalescing in hospital from injuries sustained in the conflict, his mother created this dressing gown for him to wear. The silk patchwork material has been re-purposed from a quilt made in the 1890s. However the Norfolk Museums Collections tells another tale.
Here is their version: “Dressing gown in silk patchwork, made of tiny fussy-cut hexagons placed together to form a floret with intermediate spaces filled with plain purple hexagons, double breasted shape with collar and slight leg o'mutton sleeves. The style is similar to a man's frock coat and the silks could be waistcoat silks. This dressing gown was said to have been worn by other family members, one of note was Miss de Montjean, (actually Montgeon) said to be, 'a lady of great wealth, great energy and noted eccentricity, she was also an artist in an amateur capacity’”.

Thanks to reader Ann Prochilo for connecting me to this item.