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Craft · 01. May 2020
At home I have an old piece of red cloth, covered in bead work. I had always wondered what it was when I came across Stroudwater red cloth. Red, green and blue cloth was and still is made in and around Stroud for hundreds of years. The great supply of water attracted weavers to the area and there, they produced a very high quality cloth. In Stroud Museum in the Park, there is a painting showing a panorama around Rodborough Fort with large areas of red cloth spread out in the fields and hung on...
Craft · 01. May 2020
The folk art of the canals
Craft · 04. October 2019
A short story of the history of Strouds Red Cloth