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Field notes
Walks, workshops and the places still working.
Everything under this shield
Field notes
Walking the old salt roads
Before canals and railways, salt left Cheshire on the backs of packhorses. Their roads are still there if you know which hedges to follow.
Hal Denby
Field notes
Three days in a working scriptorium
A small community in the Welsh borders still copies books by hand. I spent three days at their desks and came home unable to rush a sentence.
Isolde Marr
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Essays
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Long arguments for slow, well-made things.
Chronicles
Gules, a bend Or
History, told through the hands that made it.
Craft
Or, a fess Sable
Step by step: ink, gold, wood, iron and bread.
Field notes
Vert, a pale Or
Walks, workshops and the places still working.
Conversations
Purpure, a saltire Or
Long interviews with people who make things.
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