We are holding our Fair on Saturday at the Subscription Rooms Stroud , The standard of goodies on sale will be as usual excellent , so hope to see everyone. Sallie
Off to London on Sunday for the big event , Textile society fair at Kensington Town hall , lots of amazing stands ,,, so hope we have a good day ,,,,,, Stroud next saturday ,,, subscription rooms , lovely dealers there.
Saturday 11th was the Food Festival Festival at Coleshill National trust Village . I always have a stall sending my textiles , not very foody I must admit although we always have a good day ....here are a few pics,
We have a country fair on Saturday at Coleshill National Trust village,so I decided to use my scraps of toile to make lavender bags, so late last night we were filling lavender bags , they look really quite good I think ... the house is beautifully perfumed,,,,
We had I think a very busy fair on sunday some very good buying going on and as usual considerable buying between stall holders . We plan to do 2 to 3 next year but are finding missing the large number of fairs springing up everywhere difficult to avoid ,, so hopefully we can go through into our 5th year.The tea room was far better than the ballroom so we are going to book that instead now. This of course means we are restricted to numbers as yesterday we could have no more dealers in there as fire exits are difficult with the cafe nearby ... so keep supporting us and we will go through another year . Thanks to all those people who actively spread the word about the fair , word of mouth is the best advertising .
Jim and i are off agin to Bath to walk the streets and deliver lots of leaflets to the residents of Bath ,,,, so hopefully with this wonderful weather we will have a good turn out , lots of fantastic stock to buy eveyone.
Most of my adult life has been spent dealing in one form or another with Antique textiles. Recently I have found great interest in trying to source very old pieces which are now becoming so rare. I love to source early textiles from Spitalfields and have developed a great interest in early French fabrics and the history that goes with these beautiful pieces.
I currently still teach Art and Design but also run a business devoted primarily to finding these early pieces of textile both to collect and sell .
My stock for sale can always be found on ebay under my name .. sallie_ead and I have a web shop within the Ruby Lane antique on line shopping arcade. This is a new venture and is listed as Lucia Collectables.
I will post new finds on my blog and images of textiles which are fascinating and are part of my personal collection...
The Antique Textile Bazaar is going to have listed for sale the small fragments for makers and collectors and bundles of fabrics which are perfect for projects.
I will put the price which will include postage , second class, if you need ant first class postage i would have to charge a nominal fee. .