by Heather Luke | Jun 24, 2015
Originally the shooting box, a small house on a country estate large enough to provide accommodation for a shooting party (of 8 ). Originally designed for use during the shooting season solely, it is now often designed for year-round leisure use. ...
by Heather Luke | Jun 24, 2015
Describes weaves in which the warp and weft are in two or more different colours, creating a fabric that appears to change colour with each new angle and extent of light. Even as you scrunch a piece of shot fabric in your hand and turn it, one colour after another...
by Heather Luke | Jun 24, 2015
A fabric that re-uses materials, scraps of woollen clothing stripped back and re-worked, perhaps adding some new wool to it; the fabric thus produced would inevitably be of lesser quality and low durability. It is a term now synonymous with inferior quality and...
by Heather Luke | Jun 24, 2015
A decorative finishing technique whereby material is drawn up into gathers between parallel rows of stitching. The rows can be pulled up by hand and fixed in place; shirring today is usually made with the help of an elasticated thread, called shirring elastic, which...
by Heather Luke | Jun 24, 2015
The capital of the Fars province of southwest Iran, it is an ancient centre of regional trade, famous for its culture and crafts, in particular Persian rugs such as kelim and pile carpet-weaving. Shiraz weavers are typically home-based, settled villagers, whose work...
