Amanda Jane Textiles

Clothes and dancing from the fifties

Textiles of all kinds appear in these posts and this week it’s all about the 1950s. Each year, Beamish Open Air Museum (which is just a few miles down the road from my house) hosts a 1950s weekend. On Saturday, it was sunny and we had visitors staying, so bought our entrance tickets and tookContinueContinue reading “Clothes and dancing from the fifties”

A monument made of textiles

The Great Exhibition of the North has begun and there is plenty going on in Newcastle/Gateshead in the North-East of England. For more information about this major series of events, please check out the website listed at the end of this post. I was in Newcastle on Saturday, walking up Grey Street towards Grey’s MonumentContinueContinue reading “A monument made of textiles”