by Heather Luke | Jun 20, 2015
The Gunny sack is an inexpensive hessian–or burlap–bag made of jute, kenaf, hemp or sisal, this is used to transport grain, potatoes and grains. These flour sacks, grain sacks, coffee sacks, are re-used again and again perhaps as sandbags, on farms and...
by Heather Luke | Jun 20, 2015
A self-supporting lace in which the designs are connected and linked together rather than with a self made or underlying...
by Heather Luke | Jun 20, 2015
Knitted woollen sweater of the island’s fisherman dating from the 15thC, when Guernsey was allowed to import wool from England and to export the made up goods to Norway and Span. Knitted by the womenfolk for their sea faring husbands, sons and fathers, their...
by Heather Luke | Jun 20, 2015
Guard hair is the name for the outer layer of coarser, longer hairs of the mountain goat, the yak, some camelids and other mammals inhabiting extreme climates. The undercoat that does the real work in providing a soft, fine, dense coat right next to the skin, is the...
by Heather Luke | Jun 20, 2015
The stable background colour that supports the pattern. We say ‘on a white ground, or on a blue ground’. Whatever the design colours are, however complex or simple, the ground colour determines how we think of them. The colour of the base cloth also...
