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Anyone who follows my photostream knows that I collect beautiful and vintage pieces of haberdashery. I usually focus on Dewhurst’s Sylko spools, but I also have spools from many other manufacturers which have interesting and beautiful graphics on their heads. For this photograph I have a spool of Glista silk substitute machine twist from the 1930s and a spool of Cozilka machine twist from the 1920s. Some time ago, I went fabric shopping at a specialist shop that has a particularly wonderful range of unusual fabrics that they sell by the quarter metre (just enough for my purposes). Amongst other pieces I bought this beautiful hand dyed pale blue pleated wool crêpe which I have used to accessorise my two spools and two lovely cobalt blue glass Art Deco buttons from the 1920s.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 17th of May is “ton sur ton”. “Ton sur ton” is a French expression that we can translate as “tone on tone”; that's when there are two (or more) assembled items of the same colour, but not the same shade (tint, hue). In this example, the spools and the buttons are all shades of blue, but the shades are darker than that of the pale blue crêpe background. I hope you like my choice of subject for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
I could find very little about Glista Bright Machine Twist other than an advertisement from an English Du Barry patterns magazine from 1939. The advertisement says: “Be sure and sew with Glista, the best machine twist for woollens or cotton fabrics – strong and silky – works perfectly for machine or hand sewing. 100-yard reels – look for the name on the reels.” I know Glista Bright Machine Twist was produced in Britain, and I know it was sold through F. W. Woolworth & Co.
Cozilka was a brand produced by B. N. & H. Ltd. B. N. & H. Ltd. were Brough, Nicholson and Hall of Leek, Staffordshire. The company was founded in 1812 as a silk and artificial silk thread producer. They became famous throughout the textile world as very high quality silk fabric and thread manufacturers. Cozilka is probably either silk or artificial silk, and the name was created to be a imitation of Dewhurst's Sylko trade name.
This is for you Anastasia! a wonderful Lady from my Mother Land Greece.
Finally its time to but the Exotic lilies in the pond, was a great day on Mother's Day for that:-)
All these years and never took the time to actually smell the flowers,
I can only remember one or twice and that was years ago,
The aroma on all the water Lilies is Devine, you know what I am talking about if you already smelled one,
Happy week ahead!
Veterans Glass City Skyway Bridge (or Toledo Skyway Bridge), a cable-stayed support bridge, on Interstate 280 over the Maumee River, Toledo, Ohio
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Created for KreativePeople TT226 challenge.
Source image with thanks, from Lemon-Art.
Moon & Night sky texture, courtesy of NASA.
Tree & Bubbles, purchased.
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A few months ago, I obtained some lovely pieces of vintage and antique haberdashery notions from a contact of mine in Dorset who seems to always find me interesting pieces. Amongst the items that caught my eye were this wonderful Edwardian era Celebrated Elephant Machine Silk spool, lovely needle packet and a selection of cobalt buttons.
Those attached to their original card are hard plastic, but the latticed ones and the other stylised Art Deco one are glass and date from the 1920s. The buttons all matched cobalt blue of the silk on the spool that I had to put them together! The grey and blue marbleised buckle you can see in the background is Bakelite and also dates from the 1920s.
I'm afraid that after a thorough search, the only thing I could establish about "Celebrated Elephant Machine Silk" is that at one time it was produced by Perivale Sewing Silks. They had a number of different elephant lines including Black Label, Red Label (which consisted of two tone spools of thread) and Blue Label. In addition I know they also made coloured thread for fishing lines. The Perivale Sewing Company had a factory in the Perivale Industrial Estate in Perivale, and that it burnt to the ground around 1968 and was replaced by Perivale Gütermann (an amalgam of the Perivale Sewing Company with Gütermann Cottons).
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Plumbago auriculata / Plumbago capensis, seen in Uppsala Botanical Garden, Uppsala, Sweden.
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When it was last my birthday, a very dear friend who enjoys photography as much as I do, and knows that I collect beautiful and vintage pieces, gave me a wonderful selection of antique ribbons, buttons, buckles, lace and other fine notions. She also gave me three follow up tins of similar delightful gifts for Christmas.
Those wonderful gifts are what has inspired me to create this series of "Embroider my World" images featuring my vintage bobbin collection. Recently I went fabric shopping at a specialist shop that has a particularly wonderful range of unusual fabrics that they sell by the quarter metre (just enough for my purposes). Amongst other pieces I bought this brilliantly blue pleated wool crepe which I have accessorised with a Dewhurst's Radiant Blue reel of cotton which dates from between 1938 and 1954 and a matching smaller spool of blue cotton from J. P. Coats. Both spools match the fabric perfectly!
Belle Vue Mill, commonly known as Dewhurst’s, was built by Thomas Dewhurst in 1828. It opened in 1829 as John Dewhurst & Sons and was one of Skipton’s largest spinning and weaving mills. The mill’s position next to the Leeds Liverpool Canal meant that raw cotton could be shipped in by boats from Liverpool. Finished goods would then be sent back the same way ready for distribution. Coal to power the machine’s steam engines was also delivered by barge. In 1897 Dewhurst’s was bought by the English Sewing Cotton Co. It continued to produce Sylko, one of the mill’s most famous products. It was produced in over 500 colours and sold throughout the world. Sylko cottons are still available at haberdashers today.
In 1802 James Coats set up a weaving business in Paisley. In 1826 he opened a cotton mill at Ferguslie to produce his own thread and, when he retired in 1830, his sons, James & Peter, took up the business under the name of J. & P. Coats. In 1952 J. & P. Coats and the Clark Thread Co. merged to become Coats & Clark's. Today, the business is known as the Coats Group.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 10th of May is “Blue for You – ME 2025” which is in honour of ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia International Awareness Day which happens to fall on May 12th. May the 12th was chosen as it coincided with the birth date of Florence Nightingale, the celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale became chronically ill in her mid-thirties after returning from the Crimean War; the M.E.-like illness often left her bedridden during the last 50 years of her life. I have friends who suffer with ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia, so this theme has a personal connection for me, even if I do not have it myself.
As the subject for “Smile on Saturday” this week was open to personal choice but required a lot of blue, although I usually create a blue themed Playmobil tableau, I have broken with tradition this year, as I recently was given a rather lovely blue hand painted resin Nostalgia Shoe which I felt was perfect to feature in a photograph. I have paired my slipper which features red and gold accents with a blue Art Deco “Charme Caressant” Rachel powder box from my powder box collection which features stylised red and pink flowers on it. I have photographed them on a piece of hand made and printed paper featuring a William Morris pattern in blue. I hope that you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
"Charme Caressant" is the name of a vintage Dalon face powder, produced in both Paris and Sydney from 1924 into the 1930s. It was a popular French beauty product known for its Art Deco style and various colour shades.
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The sun shines through a clear in the cloud cover illuminating the sea. The red ship is a fishing ship. Mar del Plata, Argentina.
“People who keep stiff upper lips find that it’s damn hard to smile.” - Judith Guest (American novelist and screenwriter.)
The theme for “Smile on Saturday” for the 4th of October is “lips”. In this case, I have opted to photograph the father stylised cupid’s bow lips of one of my German half-dolls made by Dressel and Kister, who were famous for making high quality dolls. Her 1920s cupid’s bow lips are (or rather were) modish for the times she was made in the 1920s, yet they are at odds with the rest of her garb, which is very romanticised English late Seventeenth Century Nell Gwynne style, where she wears a floppy lilac coloured hat decorated with feathers and a blue blouse with lace at the collar and cuffs, rater reminiscent of some of the pre-war advertisements for Yardley’s English Lavender Soap. In spite of this contradiction, she is by far one of my finest painted half-dolls and was a recent acquisition from a small antiques and curios shop. She came home along with three other German half-dolls (as if I need any more) which I have added to my ever expanding collection. I am a hopelessly voracious collector of objects! I hope you like my choice for this week’s theme, and that it makes you smile!
The "half-doll" is a dainty porcelain or bisque figurine, fashionable in the early Twentieth Century with an upper body, head, arms, but no legs. These dolls were produced in the thousands at the height of their popularity by German factories such as Dressel and Kister, Heubach, Goebel and Kestner. Later they were produced in France, America and later still, in Japan. They commonly served as handles and toppers for fabric covers made for powder boxes on ladies’ dressing tables and small brushes, however they were also made for jewellery boxes, pincushions, tea cosies and other covers. In this case, my German half-doll with her stylised and romanticised Seventeenth Century style dress and picture hat, would have been made for a lady’s boudoir, probably as a powder bowl cover or even for a powder puff.
The theme for “Looking Close on Friday” for the 25th of March is “pencil sharpener”. Luckily this was an easy theme for me, as I am an artist amongst many other things, so I always have an array of pencils and sharpeners within easy reach. So, here we have one of my silver pencil sharpeners hedged in by sixteen of my Derwent studio pencils. I hope you like my choice for the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.
When I was twelve, I entered a drawing competition, and I won my first set of Derwent pencils: a tin case of 36. As a designer and illustrator as well as a photographer, over the years I have acquired several different sets of Derwents for different purposes, including my beloved Derwent Studio Pencil set of 72 which I use predominantly these days for designing clothes.
Derwent, or the Derwent Cumberland Pencil Company, is a manufacturer of pencils and other stationery. The business began in 1832 in Cumberland under the name of Banks, Son & Co. The company was bought by Acco UK and became a brand of their product range.
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This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year. In this case they are for a friend, who like me, elects blue as her favourite colour.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 5mm in diameter, except the large flowers which are 8mm and the small flowers which are 3mm and very fiddly. Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the flowers and stars until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, however because it is a complex pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 2 to 2 1/2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
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Autumn, also known as fall in North American English, is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere), when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably shorter and the temperature cools considerably. One of its main features in temperate climates is the shedding of leaves from deciduous trees.
Some cultures regard the autumnal equinox as "mid-autumn", while others with a longer temperature lag treat it as the start of autumn. Meteorologists (and most of the temperate countries in the southern hemisphere) use a definition based on Gregorian calendar months, with autumn being September, October, and November in the northern hemisphere, and March, April, and May in the southern hemisphere. Persians celebrate the beginning of the autumn as Mehregan to honor Mithra (Mehr).
When it was my birthday last year, a very dear friend who enjoys photography as much as I do, and knows that I collect beautiful and vintage pieces, gave me a wonderful selection of antique ribbons, buttons, buckles, lace and other fine notions. She also gave me three follow up tins of similar delightful gifts for Christmas.
Those wonderful gifts are what has inspired me to create this series of "Embroider my World" images featuring my vintage bobbin collection. In this case, the beautifully embroidered floral ribbon with sequin detailing was acquired from an up-market design shop, whilst the large wooden droplets wound in beautiful two-tone silk cord are taken from an antique Victorian curtain. I have accessorised it on a 1930s embroidered doily with a Dewhurst's Sylko Solent Blue reel of cotton, which dates from between 1938 and 1954.
Belle Vue Mill, commonly known as Dewhurst’s, was built by Thomas Dewhurst in 1828. It opened in 1829 as John Dewhurst & Sons and was one of Skipton’s largest spinning and weaving mills. The mill’s position next to the Leeds Liverpool Canal meant that raw cotton could be shipped in by boats from Liverpool. Finished goods would then be sent back the same way ready for distribution. Coal to power the machine’s steam engines was also delivered by barge. In 1897 Dewhurst’s was bought by the English Sewing Cotton Co. It continued to produce Sylko, one of the mill’s most famous products. It was produced in over 500 colours and sold throughout the world. Sylko cottons are still available at haberdashers today.