Thank you ladies I did enjoy your history lesson. I could listen to you two talking all day. Maybe some history on fastenings. When did we stop using pins to hold clothes together. How did they make early sewing thread. I can’t wait until your next history lesson and story ❤
Love this so much! I’m from north east Lancashire which also has a cotton mill heritage. I also love the sound of scissors in the background of the vlog… it sound a bit like a pig snorting! 😂😂😂 so funny
Really interesting hearing about other areas heritage and how it was growing up in an area with that heritage. I was listening to this on the Isle of Lewis which is same land mass as Isle of Harris and Harris Tweed is still being woven on looms for mass production in peoples homes and there is a factory that does all the spinning of the yarn and distributes the tweed world wide. I grew up knowing people next door and around me working in the factory as it was a much bigger business in the 80s and early 90s . There are funds for people to get looms and Harris tweed weaving is still taught in the local college. It was funny timing as what I had learnt from a previous one of your look at history which talked about sewing machines came up in conversation and I was able to answer the question and I was think I hope SOI do another history vlog soon. 😊 I thought the fabric cutting the background was quite appropriate. Thank you
That is incredible that Harris tweed is still being woven in homes as well, wow! So lovely to hear you enjoy these vlogs, we'll be planning more soon for sure 😊
Loved this video ladies. Well done! My daughter now lives in Lyon, France and that grew up around silk manufacture. The architecture is influenced by people having looms in their own homes too. And I visited their silk museum that had a working jacquard loom (they claim it was invented in Lyon). And yes, Alma, it blew my mind at how it works with the card with holes in it on the role. Great series with the history. Thank you.
Oh wow, I'm actually hoping to go to Lyon this year, mainly for the food, I didn't even know there was a silk and jacquard making history, I'll be sure to check it out, thank you! Alma
Fantastic video, thank you so much. I grew up in Gloucestershire…..sheep country …and the area around including the Cotswolds were famous for wool production. I visited some of the wool mills as a kid with my mum who was an accomplished seamstress……she eventually passed her city and guilds qualifications in tailoring as well as soft furnishing/upholstery …so I was raised by a total sewing and fabric geek! I well remember a number of her friends and geeky acquaintances spinning, yes and ‘carding’ wool, weaving, as well as lace making and many other crafts. I have in my collection of interesting antique ‘stuff’ a shuttlecock from a mill…..it’s a beautiful old object but sadly a shadow of its former self as it is now deteriorated with age and falling apart. Interestingly for one of her qualifications, my mum did research on lace making for which Nottingham is famous……I still have some of her notes and samples…..maybe a nice topic for a future SOI vlog ?
This was so interesting. I also grew up in the NW and had school trips to Quarry Bank Mill and Paradise Mill in Macclesfield. I now live in another old mill town, Huddersfield which still makes wool. I'm hoping to get some Hudds wool to make the 1960's coat (eventually).
I so enjoyed this video and thank you so much for taking the time to research and present it. I’d love to see something on the history of viscose please.
So interesting thank you. So odd how the phrase 'cost the earth' used to mean it is expensive but now probably more pertinent to say fast fashion/plastics in our clothes is literally costing the earth. I'm off to look at my local area to see if there is a fabric history. ❤
Lovely vlog, and so interesting to hear about Italy - went to Florence as a school expedition around 1966 when I was 13 and Italy had major issues with their economy with mega inflation, so the development of the mills/ factories must have brought in much needed wealth, particularly after WW2. Had not realised we had such a thriving silk industry, built on the Huguenots from Spitalfields- so interesting to see the connections.. well done - History is never dull 😘😘
I loved this video, it was so interesting. I especially liked hearing about the silk industry in Macc as I live near Buxton. Is Alma's lovely pendant necklace a sewing machine?
Thanks for sharing ladies. 🧶💙🌈🍓
Thank you ladies I did enjoy your history lesson. I could listen to you two talking all day.
Maybe some history on fastenings. When did we stop using pins to hold clothes together. How did they make early sewing thread.
I can’t wait until your next history lesson and story ❤
I think the textile term for reclaimed wool is 'shoddy' and it used to be quite an industry in a time when nothing was wasted!
Love this so much! I’m from north east Lancashire which also has a cotton mill heritage.
I also love the sound of scissors in the background of the vlog… it sound a bit like a pig snorting! 😂😂😂 so funny
ahaha it was lovely Jemima cutting up fabrics for our next Kits, but a pet pig would be an excellent addition to the office 🤣
Really interesting hearing about other areas heritage and how it was growing up in an area with that heritage. I was listening to this on the Isle of Lewis which is same land mass as Isle of Harris and Harris Tweed is still being woven on looms for mass production in peoples homes and there is a factory that does all the spinning of the yarn and distributes the tweed world wide. I grew up knowing people next door and around me working in the factory as it was a much bigger business in the 80s and early 90s . There are funds for people to get looms and Harris tweed weaving is still taught in the local college. It was funny timing as what I had learnt from a previous one of your look at history which talked about sewing machines came up in conversation and I was able to answer the question and I was think I hope SOI do another history vlog soon. 😊 I thought the fabric cutting the background was quite appropriate. Thank you
That is incredible that Harris tweed is still being woven in homes as well, wow! So lovely to hear you enjoy these vlogs, we'll be planning more soon for sure 😊
Fun fact, what’s called curduroy in English is called manchester in Swedish.
Wow, we had no idea, that's so cool!
Loved this video ladies. Well done!
My daughter now lives in Lyon, France and that grew up around silk manufacture. The architecture is influenced by people having looms in their own homes too. And I visited their silk museum that had a working jacquard loom (they claim it was invented in Lyon). And yes, Alma, it blew my mind at how it works with the card with holes in it on the role.
Great series with the history. Thank you.
Oh wow, I'm actually hoping to go to Lyon this year, mainly for the food, I didn't even know there was a silk and jacquard making history, I'll be sure to check it out, thank you! Alma
It was lovely fallowing you two in this vlog! Wonderful Histories! Well done! And go on please with interesring reaserches!
This was so interesting, silk was also in braintree, Essex.
Another brilliant video. Thank-you for your hard work doing all the research, it's so interesting to hear. 😊xx
Fantastic video, thank you so much. I grew up in Gloucestershire…..sheep country …and the area around including the Cotswolds were famous for wool production. I visited some of the wool mills as a kid with my mum who was an accomplished seamstress……she eventually passed her city and guilds qualifications in tailoring as well as soft furnishing/upholstery …so I was raised by a total sewing and fabric geek! I well remember a number of her friends and geeky acquaintances spinning, yes and ‘carding’ wool, weaving, as well as lace making and many other crafts. I have in my collection of interesting antique ‘stuff’ a shuttlecock from a mill…..it’s a beautiful old object but sadly a shadow of its former self as it is now deteriorated with age and falling apart. Interestingly for one of her qualifications, my mum did research on lace making for which Nottingham is famous……I still have some of her notes and samples…..maybe a nice topic for a future SOI vlog ?
Such incredible heritage! It sounds like that shuttlecock should be taken to the repair shop 😍The history of lace-making is a great shout, thank you!
This was so interesting. I also grew up in the NW and had school trips to Quarry Bank Mill and Paradise Mill in Macclesfield. I now live in another old mill town, Huddersfield which still makes wool. I'm hoping to get some Hudds wool to make the 1960's coat (eventually).
I so enjoyed this video and thank you so much for taking the time to research and present it. I’d love to see something on the history of viscose please.
So interesting thank you. So odd how the phrase 'cost the earth' used to mean it is expensive but now probably more pertinent to say fast fashion/plastics in our clothes is literally costing the earth. I'm off to look at my local area to see if there is a fabric history. ❤
Really interesting - Thank you!
Really interesting vlog, thank you!😊
Loved this chat, so fascinating, thank you. I live in Yorkshire which definitely has a textile industry, maybe I should do some research into it.
So interesting! Thank you both 😊
Another great video these history ones are so interesting
Lovely vlog, and so interesting to hear about Italy - went to Florence as a school expedition around 1966 when I was 13 and Italy had major issues with their economy with mega inflation, so the development of the mills/ factories must have brought in much needed wealth, particularly after WW2. Had not realised we had such a thriving silk industry, built on the Huguenots from Spitalfields- so interesting to see the connections.. well done - History is never dull 😘😘
Just fascinating….thank you both so much ☺️💕🧵
I watched a video on youtube about Prato recycling fabrics, we could learn a thing or two from them. Love to go and see the process in action.
I must be a fabric history geek too. Stayed till the end. 😂
I loved this video, it was so interesting. I especially liked hearing about the silk industry in Macc as I live near Buxton. Is Alma's lovely pendant necklace a sewing machine?
It is a sewing machine! It's from Tatty Devine: www.tattydevine.com/
lol….i guess I’m a geek 👍😘💕🧵