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Save the Date for World Textile Days next year - Published 27 Nov 2021

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A big Thank You to everyone who has signed up for the newsletter and to all those who continue to read my occasional musings!
Looking back ....
We were very busy this Autumn with plenty of shows and travelling around the country in Big Green. We got to FIVE World Textile Days - in Wales, Scotland, Bristol, The New Forest and Norfolk and ONE Yarndale Wool Show in the Yorkshire Dales. Thank you so much to all those who came to one of them.
We had fantastic autumn weather for most of the time and got as far north as Mallaig (and even further by ferry to Knoydart!) in north western Scotland and down south to Brockenhurst where we stayed in the New Forest on a campsite listening to the amazing sound of rutting stags through the night!
Both were very memorable experiences.

And now looking ahead... some of you may have met younger son Sean who has been working in the shop and on the stand at the last few shows.
We feel very lucky that just as Jim and I are starting to think about a new phase of life - dare I say retiring? or doing something different? moving even? Sean is stepping forward to take on more Textile Traders business. Of course he and his brother have been involved since they were babies, coming to market stalls and festivals and shows and they were also carted off many times on trips out to the Far East, but this will be be a bit different!
We love our business but we have been doing it since 1984 (what's that, 37 years?) and it would be good to have time to do something new.
More news of all this and possible changes in the coming year!
Meanwhile Sean and I are going off to do a buying trip to Thailand in January. We are currently wading through all the admin needed and at the moment I feel it will be a minor miracle if we manage to get there with nothing going wrong. I am expecting things to be very different from the last time I was there 2 years ago. I will be reporting back.

In the meantime we have been so lucky to have great contacts in various places who have continued to get new stock to us. We have just had two deliveries in from Bali. The first was of silver jewellery from one of our favourite silver shops in Celuk, the silver-smiths village in central Bali. It was very fortunate that I had a Whatsapp contact for Dewi Chandra who chose and sent some new earrings to me. have a look here!
The second was ikat fabrics by the metre woven by the women of Klungkung (photos below). This fabric is worn particularly at the many ceremonial festivities which are such a big part of Balinese life. It's woven by women mostly in their own homes and then sold at the local market. Our friend Fiona went to the market for us as soon as it reopened, and bought the fabrics from the ladies there. She told us that we had made their day. Look at the new ikat here!
Sean has also been very busy unpacking, pricing and putting lots of woodblocks on the website and out in the shop. He's also put a hefty discount on our bigger ones. Our wonderful and ever popular woodblocks are here

We have just had a top level cabinet meeting with our co-conspirators Magie and Bob about next years' WORLD TEXTILE DAYS.
It has proved more difficult than usual to get dates which we and our venues can manage but we've done it! So we are now getting the leaflets printed and starting to organise the talks.
We've decided that the morning talk will be on the theme of "Crossing Borders" (the theme postponed since 2020) and then in the afternoon we'll have some short talks on "Surviving the Pandemic" - with news of how our suppliers and friends abroad have managed through these hard times.
Below is a preview of the leaflet - do contact us if you would like some to distribute as soon as they come back from the printers.
South East (East Horsley, Surrey) April 2nd
East (Mundford, Norfolk) on April 9th
Central (King's Sutton, Northants) on May 7th
Scotland (Bridge of Allan, Stirling) on May 21st
North (Frodsham, Cheshire) on August 27th
Wales (Llanidloes, Powys) on September 3rd
West (Saltford near Bristol) on October 1st
South - (Brockenhurst, Hampshire New Forest) on October 8th
We're adding one more date to the list - on SEPTEMBER 10th at The Guildhall in Chipping Norton. This one will be a market only
Up to date details for all of these with the speakers as we confirm them will be on our World Textile Day website.
All our upcoming talks and shows for 2022 so far are now on our Events Diary Page. I hope you'll be able to get to one or another of them.

TEXTILE TRADERS SHOP.

At the moment we're keeping the shop open 4 days a week and Jim and Mouse will even keep it going in January and February while Sean and I are gallivanting about in the East. (It will probably be best to ring to check during that time)
More news of that next year but in the meantime expect to see us open on Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
We'll post our up to date Opening times on our website Home Page.

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