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One mill in Stromsburg uses a building from 1910 and massive equipment dating as far back as 1929 to create custom yarn and blanket filling for sheep farmers. ....
Hartlepool sees influx of big names to bolster traditional support Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds during a campaigning visit to Hartlepool last week. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds during a campaigning visit to Hartlepool last week. Photograph: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images Sun 11 Apr 2021 01.30 EDT Dozens of Labour MPs and shadow ministers have poured into Hartlepool before the town’s crucial byelection, as Keir Starmer’s party tries desperately to defend its traditional northern stronghold from the Tories. With numbers of activists restricted by Covid-19 measures, a string of high-profile Labour names, led by Starmer himself, have visited – a sign of the party’s determination to prevent what would be seen as a damaging reversal if the Conservatives were to seize it on 6 May. ....
ONLINE: Textiles From Home: Local Crafts, Global Conversations Mar 14, 2021 to Interdisciplinary textile artist Bisa Butler in front of her work The Warmth of Other Sons. Anyone interested in the fiber arts should explore this multi-day conference from the Center for Design and Material Culture at the UW-Madison School of Human Ecology. Presentations focus on connections between textile making, domestic space, and local environments, historically and now, and include sessions on such of-the-moment crazes as artful mending, embroidery, women in fiber mills, and Scottish wool. The keynote is from the extraordinary quilt portrait artist Bisa Butler, March 18 at 4 pm. Find the remaining events and sign-ups ....