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Sunday, 2 December 2012

Saturday, 1 December 2012

Snippets of NEW found fabrics

Here are a few snippets of some NEW fabrics we have to re-use. We recently collected them from a community scrap scheme. It is always exciting deciding what we can now make with them....

Monday, 26 November 2012

Harpenden Fair

Here are a few photos of our stall at the Harpenden Town Hall Fair 2012

The fair went brilliantly and all together raised an amazing £13,700 for Breakthrough Breast Cancer and the Harpenden Seniors Club!

We are next at

Princess Helena College, Preston.

Saturday 1st December 2012

http://www.princesshelenacollege.co.uk/index.php

We hope to see you their!

Friday, 2 November 2012

New found fabrics

Here are a selection of our recently found 50's fabrics. Very lovely we think!

Countryside

Lister & co ltd, Pimlico

Lister & co ltd, Meadowsweet co

We have done a little research and think that the fabric must have come from Lister's Mill (otherwise known as Manningham Mills)and was the largest Silk factory in the world. It is located in the Manningham district of Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK and was built by Samuel Cunliffe Lister to replace the original Manningham Mills that were destroyed by fire in 1871. The mill is a Grade II* listed building, built in the Italianate style of Victorian architecture.

At its height, Lister's employed 11,000 men, women and children - manufacturing high-quality textiles such as velvet and silk. It supplied 1,000 yards (910 m) of velvet for King George Vs coronation and in 1976 new velvet curtains for the President FordWhite House. The 1890-91 strike at the mill was important in the establishment of the Independent Labour Party which later helped found the modern-day Labour Party. On completion in 1873, Lister's Mill was the largest textile mill in North England. Floor space in the mill amounts to 27 acres (109,000 m²), and its imposing shape remains a dominant feature of the Bradford skyline. The chimney of the mill is 255 feet (78 m) high, and can be seen from most areas of Bradford.

Powering all the machinery switched over to electricity in 1934. Before that huge steam boilers drove the mill. Every week the boilers consumed 1,000 tons of coal brought in on company rail wagons from the company collieries near Pontefract. Water was also vital in the process and the company had its own supply network including a large covered reservoir on-site (now in 2006 that area is a piazza and underground car park).

During World War II Lister's produced 1,330 miles of real parachute silk, 284 miles of flame-proof wool, 50 miles of khaki battledress and 4,430 miles of parachute cord.

Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lister_Mills