Is this the best leaving email ever? Sent by someone leaving a large international company, which recently bought out the company he originally worked for, as a goodbye to all the friends and colleagues he worked with….. _______________________________________________________________________________________ Dear Blahs Blah blah blah blah blah 12 years blah blah blah blah blah blah good times… [Read more…]
March 16, 2011
Hi all, I saw a comment on Twitter today, from the managing director of Peacocks the retailer, He said “he was amazed that T shirts from China were cheaper than a bottle of beer”, the simple fact is that clothing has become the new disposable items. While it seems that beer has become a fashion statement. Timothy… [Read more…]
March 15, 2011
Good evening all! Remember to use the #UKTextiles hashtag if you are tweeting about the best of British Textiles!
March 8, 2011
No – not sitting here talking to myself like Norma No-Mates! Ian is currently away, delivering three days of training for a major retailer on dyeing and finishing and I am all on my ownsome at Coloursmith Cottage… So what’s a girl to do when the evening stretches in front of her, with no big… [Read more…]
March 3, 2011
Hi all, I have started a new group on Linked in called UK Textiles. the idea is to bring together the great and the good of the UK textile market to find a way to invigourate this once great industry of ours. There is no doubt that the expertise is here in the UK, its just that at the… [Read more…]
January 30, 2011
Ok. You might now think this article is about trains. It isn’t. Sorry But since I have have your attention, rubbish ‘play on words’ device aside…. what I really wanted to write about is training. Yes. Learning and listening and all that slightly academic stuff… I recently attended an Insights training course – a group… [Read more…]
November 26, 2010
Hello all, its been a while since any posts sorry about that. Number of reasons why that I will not go into. I recently purchased from Ebay a technical book to bring my dyeing and finishing knowledge up to date. ” Scouring and Dyeing with Vegetable Dye Recipes” by K Grasett was first published in 1930 and goes… [Read more…]
October 21, 2010
Hello again – Ian here, two post very quickly this weeks, I have been planning to write the dinosaur one for a while and just got round to it, but something much more important in the world of colour has come to my attention. Forget everything, we need to resolve the issue that is relevant… [Read more…]
October 21, 2010
Following on from Shirley’s post about how the great thinkers of our time have decided that the universe is actually middle-aged and as such is dressing accordingly in Beige. It seems that what could possibly be the second oldest colour related question has now been answered. A study in the journal Science has given us the first… [Read more…]
October 11, 2010
Have you noticed how beautiful the British autumn is this year? Apparently, the trees are turning later this season, and this has meant that the contrast between the green trees that have yet to start changing colour, with those trees that are already displaying orange, plum and yellow leaves, is greater! Our garden… [Read more…]
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March 18, 2011
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