Book Review:  The Tenth Gift

Book Review: The Tenth Gift

Jane Johnson is a prolific writer of books for both adults and children as well as being a fiction book editor. A trip to North Africa in 2005 investigating a long-buried family legend about the abduction of a family from a Cornish church by Barbary pirates in 1625,...
Embroidered Dragon Robes

Embroidered Dragon Robes

Close your eyes and imagine the sound a cascading silk garment makes in movement. Imagine the feel of exquisite embroidery – the silken smoothness of the long, colourful threads and the unmistakable texture of couched gold and silver, pearls, and other rich...
East Asian Silk Embroidery

East Asian Silk Embroidery

East Asian Silk embroidery is a stunningly beautiful art form emerging from China – the ancient masters of sericulture – migrating to Korea, Vietnam, and Japan, with each adding their own cultural and stylistic design stamp to form this unmistakable...
Book Review:  The Gown

Book Review: The Gown

Cleverly entitled The Gown, this historical novel published by William Morrow Paperbacks in 2018, will almost certainly appeal to fans of the television series The Crown, or anyone interested in the making of one of the most famous wedding gowns of the 20th century...
Writing a Podcast

Writing a Podcast

What on earth drove me to create this podcast? Passion, pure and simple.  I’ve always enjoyed stitching, and I find history utterly fascinating – I simply married the two together, so the entire ethos for the Stitch Safari podcasts will always revolve...
The Wearable Cloth

The Wearable Cloth

Every morning usually begins with the donning of cloth in the form of clothing.  Cloth envelops us from morning to night; we slumber between it, we use it to make our homes more comfortable and appealing, and according to statistics, a large percentage of people...