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May Day
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…
Sewing Tutorial: A Little Girl’s Circle Skirt
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…
Realia:Digitalia
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 Festival Collection: A Fictional Story.
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,…
Mad Hatters and March Hares
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…
Collaborative Textiles: #Imapiece
The thing I love most about textiles is that they can never quite be pinned down. Textiles are rarely straightforward. They are always steeped in associations, memories and signs. They can’t be measured by aesthetics alone and it’s always worth…