Laura Greppi
Keltoi Radio | Celtic web-radio web-tv | On-line and Live. Cartmel Priory in the village of Cartmel, near Grange-over-Sands, South Cumbria. Hillside cottage. Circle of the Year. Cornflower. I've been reading Lara Platman's book Harris Tweed: From Land to Street , a photographic record of a year spent on Lewis and Harris recording every step in the process of the making of the tweed from the rearing of the sheep to the stamping of the finished cloth with the famous orb symbol, and beyond to the tailors of Savile Row and the catwalks of London Fashion Week. The book's Foreword is by Patrick Grant, proprietor of Norton & Sons (and of course judge on The Great British Sewing Bee). He is a champion of the cloth having worn it first at school here in Edinburgh, and he recalls his pale green tweed jacket: "we wore it in winter, and when it rained the top deck of the number 23 bus would smell like wet dog.
We wore it in the full heat of the Scottish summer, when it became goal post and impromptu blanket. Back to the book, and to the Hebridean island where the tweed is made, and I am fortunate to have visited several of the locations pictured in it on my visits to Lewis/Harris. Blavatsky Net Theosophy - original Theosophy text - focus on Madame Blavatsky.
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