Victoriana – Corsetry using antique Victorian Lace In November 2013, I was involved in an epic house sale, of an amazing lady, Vervia Todd, who had lived all her life in her large, middle class family home in the historic town of Chester-Le-Street, near Durham, where her mother and grandmother had also grown up, and […]
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I’ve spent this afternoon cutting the flat and spiral steels ready for the commissions I’m currently working on. The spiral steels need capping and the flat steels need the attentions of this bench grinder to smooth the ends into curves and ensure there are no rough edges. Once this is done they’ll need each end […]
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