The Department of Culture, Media and Sport are currently in the process of re-classifying the ‘Creative Industries’ with the intention of deciding what stays and what gets rejected. In our culture, where that which cannot be measured does not exist…
I have just returned from this year’s mayday festival and I have been reminded how much I enjoy the traditions of this celebration. This is, for me, a festival I can experience and participate in without the heavy guilt of…
We were recently asked by the press to write a sewing tutorial for the Norwich Evening News, inspired by the BBC's Great British Sewing Bee. Last autumn we hosted a very successful vintage skirt dressmaking workshop and decided to adapt…
As the maker of things, and the owner of an online business, I exist in a liminal space – a no- mans land where I pace a porous border between the real and the digital. I can remember being a…
The Mercerie is officially one year old. I know this as I posted my first blog on April Fool’s day 2012. The Mercerie emerged slowly and quietly, with no fanfare and no entourage. I just opened a door, stepped in,…
March is the month that is traditionally ‘in like a lion’ and ‘out like a lamb’ and brings with it gusty March winds to remind us that winter’s not done with us yet. Recently these winds have swept us up…