POSTED ON JUNE 23, 2009 In the Footlights Fashion shows always come with high levels of tension, emotion and lot so of superlatives. It’s like the opening night at the theatre. So much hangs on just a few moments. Many readers of this will have seen some of the University of Northampton Fashion School Show […]
the battle against leather picks up pace, Northampton leather cluster, APLF and the recession
POSTED ON MAY 29, 2009. 3 posts below Bringing in the students One of the purposes of going out to Hong Kong is to attract new students, but APLF 2009 was no so great a success. In fact the School must be a bit unsure about next year as the recession has hit the trade […]
Bologna, APLF, Northampton and Bob Higham; plus of course Leather Naturally
POSTED ON APRIL 28, 2009 two items below From past to present in one easy move Sadly I will miss another SLTC Council Meeting in Northampton on Wednesday as after my accident and back operation I am still strictly limited in how much I can travel and how many hours I am allowed on my […]
Richard Graves, Ron Smith and Fred Shortland
POSTED ON MARCH 21, 2009 Two items A bad start to 2009 This has been a tough year so far with a lot of problems. We have our economic meltdown and without question the leather industry in a year’s time will have a different look about it. But the year has also been tough on […]
Industry segmentation and Trade Shows
POSTED ON NOVEMBER 25, 2008 Two items Now we know I always wondered who went round defacing the posters I put up for my successful campaign for election as President of the Students Union at Leeds University back in 1968, but now we know. But in his excellent talk to the UK SLTC last week […]
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower
(First published by APLF, Hong Kong, in my Cool Hunting Column) One of the famous characters of the 20th century leather industry was Bert Childs, a hide and skin trader from Liverpool. His wife used to collect sand as she travelled around the world and after staying with them in the early nineteen eighties I […]
Old Leather Dogs and new tanning drums
POSTED ON SEPTEMBER 28, 2008 two items below More awards please The one thing that brings our old friends out of the woodwork for the SLTC Annual Conference is the award of Life Membership…..perhaps the committee needs to establish an annual award to keep all retirees and old friends coming back year after year. Certainly […]
Tilman Taeger at Leathersellers and 2009 thoughts
POSTED ON JUNE 26, 2008. Two items are below from my Northampton blog 2009 Centenary events start to take shape It’s more or less July now and the weather for Wimbledon is better than normal. We are sitting in the garden catching the strains from Glastonbury. Not a bad way to spend such a dry […]
Bob Higham walking for India
POSTED ON. NOVEMBER 6, 2007 Short Sleeved Shirts I did my studying at Leeds University and am one of the small remaining band who are entitled to be a member of the Corium Club via an agreement that on the termination of leather teaching at Leeds the Atkin section of the Procter Society would be […]
Leather Guilds, 110th SLTC Meeting
POSTED ON. OCTOBER 17, 2007 It is October and it is sunny in Scotland The weather is hot and sunny and we are having a drink outside in shorts and sun hats. We have been lying on the beach. Is this global warming or just an “Indian” summer? Or perhaps the microclimate that Daniel Defoe […]