"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 ...
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Woodbridge Vintage and Contemporary Market 26th September 09
On Saturday we did the Vintage and Contemporary Market at Woodbridge in Suffolk. We missed the first one as we were selling elsewhere but friends had given us glowing reports….so we just had to do this one! It was quite a challenge to get everything into our tiny stall but somehow we managaged it. I ...
Norwich Costume and Textile Associations Wolterton Hall Fair 2009
Today we spent a pleasant afternoon at the Norwich Costume and Textile Associations annual fair at Wolterton Hall in Norfolk… Although the setting for the fair is just perfect with the stands set up in the house itself, personally I’m not over keen on this event. Its probably the ‘vintage’ snob in us but there just seemed ...
Quacks and Cures 1902
Tracey has this weird thing for applying for almost any offer available, only last night I caught her applying for this from a 1902 magazine. The funny thing is I never knew she had a problem, even so I’m looking forward to when she is reclaimed! I also noticed from the same ...
Shop Window Displays and Vintage Mannequins
Whilst browsing a secondhand bookshop in Norwich recently, I came across this beautiful book on The Art of Draping from 1936. The shop window displays of the time are quite stunning, as are the mannequins.. The pictures in the book are quite small so I have blown them up and enhanced as best I could. The mannequins ...
Little Vintage Lover Fair Heydon Norfolk Photos August 2009
Yesterday we sold at the Little Vintage Lover Fair in the super pretty village of Heydon in Norfolk. The setting was idyllic in the little wooden village hall, with both pitches inside and out. The weather was perfect and the little wooden hall buzzed with excited shoppers. As ...
Little Vintage Lover Fair
As well as our usual Saturday pitch at St Gregs, we will also be doing the Little Vintage Lover Fair at Heydon, Norfolk on Sunday (2nd Aug). I was going to take some photos of some stuff we were taking but Tracey has already started packing and I daren’t disrupt things by unpacking.. Needless to say we will ...