Articles (35)

Articles about the UK, living and working here.

Martha Ryan

All about Bazin fabric

Bazin fabric is a heavy, hand-dyed polished cotton woven as a damask (meaning a different yarn is used in the warp and weft directions) and also a brocade (meaning a pattern is woven into the fabric). Together these give Bazin a distinctive sheen. Bazin originated,…

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Martha Ryan

The Great British Sewing Bee - Season Five

Tanner Street Venue - Interior In the fifth season of The Great British Sewing Bee, 2019, Joe Lycett hosts and Savile Row's Patrick Grant and fashion designer Esme Young of Central Saint Martins, judge the contestants. Grant went to boarding school in county Durham, played…

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Martha Ryan

"B U R N T" - Robert Wun Fashion

Robert Wun gave us his BURNT fashion collection, featuring neoprene and liquid, fluted forms. Model Lexi @ Select. Robert Wun Fashion B U R N T "BURNT" - Black Robert Wun Fashion B U R N T "BURNT" - Black and White Robert Wun Fashion…

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Martha Ryan

The Great British Sewing Bee Season Two

In the second season of The Great British Sewing Bee, Claudia Winkleman hosts and May Martin of Denman College ( the Women's Institute) and Savile Row's Patrick Grant judge the contestants. Season 2 of the BBC reality television series, The Great British Sewing Bee was…

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