Sad and beautiful browns: in appreciation of London stockbrick
Ulrike Wahl, stonemason, surveyor and SPAB Fellow writes a love letter to an urban vernacular material.
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Anna Maria Garthwaite: a Spitalfields silk designer
SPAB member Caroline Murray explores the work of a key figure in the historic silk industry
The Remarkable Pinwill Sisters and Crantock Church, Cornwall
Mary, Ethel and Violet Pinwill were three extraordinary women who worked as professional woodcarvers in Ermington and then Plymouth, Devon, from about 1889. Author Helen Wilson introduces the work of this family of craft pioneers.
Viewpoint: Craft, accuracy and production
Peter Jamieson, SPAB casework volunteer, writes about honesty in craft, and mass production.