We are getting ready to celebrate our 2nd birthday and have got a wonderful treat for you all ... SAVE THE DATE Tamay is joining us in the UK from the 20th November to the 1st December!Don't get too excited just yet as we are still in the midst of her visa application but November is creeping up on us and we don't want you all to miss out. Friday 24th November AWAY AHEAD: ETHICAL KHADI AWA:EK _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Khadi: A new look at the original ethical cloth The Khadi UK Initiative is holding an event on Friday November 24th at Fashion and Textile Museum, London SE1 3FX to raise awareness about Khadi and promote its potential as an ethical and environmentally friendly...
Dear Hannah and Tamay, I have recently worked on a dance project called In the Ink Dark, devised and choreographed by dance artist Luke Pell (https://www.intheinkdark.com/). I was asked if I would work on this project as a design consultant with Shanti Freed, a costume designer. We also worked with a number of other collaborators including musician Scott Twynholm, visual artist Brian Hartley, poet JL Williams, technicians, producers, PR people, BSL interpreter, consultants and the list goes on. In the Ink Dark is about memory and loss, absence, the push and pull of emotions when we lose someone but gain something else. I was asked to explore with Luke and Shanti how we could capture something of...
Last week Tamay rang me. She rang to say how sorry she was for everyone about the fire at Grenfell Tower, London. She said, it is so, so sad and that she was thinking about everyone who had been affected. "I am so sorry for everybody". I was so touched by this. I had to share it with you all. Tamay and I speak regularly. It is amazing that despite her not being able to read and write we have always been able to speak on the phone. Sometimes we don't always understand exactly, but we both listen and try other ways to say things and then we get it. It is truly satisfying, for both of us. (That's how we...
Inspired by the previous blog post Sophie wrote to me to ask to write a guest post... enjoy this wisdom I have been witness to the story of Tamay & Me for 8 years (and its inception another 8 years before that). It is the sort of love story that seems to get deeper with time. It carries a kind of enlivenment – a rare and sacred thing, especially in these times. To bear witness is a beautiful and humbling role. I also believe it to be necessary. For what are we humans to do if not shed some tears for and sing the love songs of that which we propose to learn from? Surely this could be a...
Dearest jacket, Thank you for your beauty. The pinks the blues and and all your hues. You are so soft and gentle. You remind me of the time I spent in Vietnam back in 2008, the months I spent with Tamay and the extraordinary process of sitting and sewing for hours and hours. You helped me to come of age. You have taken me though my hippy years when I rejected the society I came from and back again into womanhood and eventually home. You have inspired me to accept some things as they are and given me the courage to change the things I can. You represent how slowly slowly stitch by stitch I can make a difference. I...
