textiles
During my visit this week to the artefacts collection at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth, I looked at three lifejackets from 1915, c.1950 and c.1970. 1915 The earliest of these was patented at the beginning of WW1 and was more than a conventional lifejacket. This life saving device was designed and marketed at…
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So, dye testing has begun for the three new colourways to be introduced later in the year.
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The quilted panels of my hessian buoyancy pouches are directly influenced by the structures of early life jackets.
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Yep, the Guernsey sweater is a little bit stiff and a little bit scratchy but the engineering of this garment is a wonderful thing.
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