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New Stockist - The Flower Room, Berwick

25/4/2016

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Our latest stockist is the The Flower Room at 18 Hide Hill, Berwick-Upon-Tweed TD15 1AB.

The flower room is a wonderfully unique florist. It has an eclectic mix of beautiful flowers and gifts, combining vintage style with quality. The team at the flower room say that they love a challenge and that they have a wealth of knowledge and understanding of flowers, that can create a style that's right for you - from vintage through to modern.
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Hours of Business - 
Monday to Friday 9.00am till 5.00pm  Saturday 9.00am till 4.00pm 
Tel Berwick: 01289 309059    Email: 
info@berwickflowers.co.uk
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"Pollok House" Commission completed

21/4/2016

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This is a commission I recently undertook, which was created and given as a wedding present.
The client originally wanted a picture of the couple's miniature schnauzer with some highland cattle. Unfortunately I was not able to come up with a suitably naturalistic image, as the size of the two types of animal is quite disparate and I thought that the resulting image would appear too contrived, Because I work with tweed and wool yarns, the images I create are never going to be highly representational. But despite this limitation, in most cases I still like to create images that are reasonably natural and realistic. Fortunately the client was happy to compromise and requested a picture of highland cattle and Pollok House in Glasgow, which is where the couple were married. I also needle felted the couples names and the date of their marriage into the foliage at the foreground of the picture.
Commissions are always challenging because where possible I obviously want to give the client exactly what they want. Sometimes I have to send the client sketches and photos to make sure that I understand the image they see in their mind's eye. I also like to send my clients regular pictures of their commission as it progresses, so there are no unexpected surprises..
I really enjoyed doing this commission as there is something special about watching a building gradually emerge as I apply each layer of tweed. First the walls and chimneys, then the roof, then the windows and finally applying the yarns to represent the window frames and fine details of the house. 
I also had a lot of fun using a tartan tweed for the cattle and really enjoyed altering the direction of the tartan pattern to try and emphasise the shape of each cow. ​
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    Jane Jackson

    I am a Northumberland based textile artist and I create needle felted paintings with Harris Tweed and wool yarns. 

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