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This is my 1st post for a few weeks as we have moved house, so I have been without my beloved computer for a while.

Currently I’m I have no broadband connection or dial up so I am reliant on a mobile Vodaphone dongle (I love that word) which most of the time seems slower than dial up.

This Sunday we did The Little Vintage Lover Fair at Burnham Market as with  Zoe’s previous fairs the day was really enjoyable, very busy and in a great location.  Saw lots of old friends and also made a few new ones too..  So we would just like to say a big thank you to everybody that made the event so much fun!

Here’s some photos…please be aware, I have just bought a new camera and am not quite used to it yet so some snaps might not be quite the best quality!

Faded Splendour’s pitch for the day:

Tracey’s felt flowers sold very well..

as did her textiles…

Linda’s stock at Past Caring, Holt…always leaves us green with envy!

As does Dianne’s

Daniella?? at Acorn and Will made a few purchases from us…

Its always nice to see Sara, who has become a felt flower addict…

Im now panicking that all these photographs without brodband will take forever to upload…. so I am going to thumbnail the rest below!  Feel free to pinch them but please do leave me a credit on your site.

This vintage knitting pattern always makes us smile!

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This pattern is for the cable knit hat only:

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The best thing about Halloween are the amazing vintage graphics, of which there are thousands… here’s a few of my faves..

I love the corn pumpkin heads…

The scariest owl ever??

Crepe paper dresses…

Please come…

These free knitting patterns are from various editions of Stitchcraft magazine all from 1933.

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Lorina Bulwer embroided this sampler in Great Yarmouth workhouse female lunatic ward in around 1900.  The 12ft by 1ft long sampler is just one long confused rant with no punctuation, much like this blog!

The sampler is addressed to the Maharajah of Kelvedon Brandon Thetford and begins:

“The Chatter is I Miss Lorina Bulwer Cambs Woman Drove to Thrigby Hall Norfolk E. Bulwer Married An Hemaphrodite Eunich I Miss Lorina Bulwer Was Examined By Dr Pinching of Walthamstow Essex And Found To Be A Properly Shaped Woman”

Below I have added a cutting from the Great Yarmouth Mercury which gives more details on this amazing and thought provoking sampler…

As promised here’s the extra picture heavy post about the Vienna Workshops textiles and fabrics.  There was loads of pictures I wanted to include but I had to filter or this post would have been huge.  I love the fact that most of the original fabric catalogue books have survived and so giving the black and white photos an extra dimension.  Most of the images are from the early 1920’s but way ahead of their time… enjoy!

Yes Jo we are looking for the big hat for you. xx

“Better to work 10 days on one product than to manufacture 10 products in one day.” Wiener Werkstätte motto

I was going to post a blog about an obsession of ours Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops)..  A large community of artists and designers working in Vienna from 1903 thought to the early 1930’s.  Who’s main aim was to resist mass production and industrialization.

I originally intended to start with there textile and clothing designs as they are mind blowing, way, way ahead of their time and one of the things we would collect if we could afford to. 

However our darling daughter Chromium Dumb Belle has been feeling a little glum and its kind of hard to give her a hug when she is 5000 miles away.  So i thought I would start with their ceramics as I just know there will be a few pieces she hasn’t seen that she will just adore…. hopefully this will make up for the rubbish emails I send her when she is feeling a little down. 

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Wish this was in colour, have spent ages imagining what colours the wall paper would be.