Category Archives: Textiles

Tools for Textiles – Irons and Surfaces for Pressing

This post – the fourth in the ‘Tools for Textiles’ series this year – is all about tools for making fabric lie flat and wrinkle-free. This is important both for dress-making and for quilt-making. I own a large ironing board (seen below) which I use for ironing clothes. It does also come in useful forContinueContinue reading “Tools for Textiles – Irons and Surfaces for Pressing”

Textiles at the Foundling Museum, London

Recently, I visited The Foundling Museum whilst on a two-day trip to London. I was eager to visit as I had heard about it from various sources. Two novels that I read last year centred around one of the protagonists being left (as a baby) at what was then the Foundling Hospital. I also listenedContinueContinue reading “Textiles at the Foundling Museum, London”