WORKSHOP NEWS | NOVEMBER
My workshop head has been pulled into December for some weeks now
Plotting dates, organising events and running production around them. It's easy to let the days zoom by around me as I tinker with lists of minutiae.
So I'm secretly delighted to succumb to the darkening of November. The shortened days intervening with my fight to over-prepare. Activating a physical and mental wind down with the sun from 4.30pm.
The days are small. Taking the morning dog walk through my favourite woodland under twisted Oaks and turning Beeches. Cutting and sewing in the workshop alongside Allegra and Ella (my goodness, they are great) until the windows go black. Home to eat by the fire. Repeat.
I'm relishing this smallness now as I know the coming weeks will be full and festive.
You can find a reminder of these nearing order and event dateshere and follow incoming designs and giftshere.
Below I've gathered some recent evening finds of inspiration for you. A collection of relating to our natural world and art for joy.
I hope your days are also small in a good way.
With love from Argal Home Farm,
Ali
What’s inspired us this month
The unvarnished beauty of raw natural materials
STRAFT is a project by Tamaki Ishii and Kazuma Yamagami exploring the rice straw that remains after harvesting rice.
A magical love letter to the power of storytelling
The cult classic film 'The Fall' - a visual feast of spectacular costumes and landscapes- by Tarsem Singh has been remastered in 4K
'Because first comes the heart, then comes the body'
An arresting short film by Jacob Krupnick about an unlikely ballet school in Lagos, Nigeria.
A Flat Place
A beautifully written memoir by Noreen Masud that looks at how landscapes can help us understand ourselves.
Image from Frances Scott's 'Orkney'
LAST CALL FOR BLUE
Just 5 Ditty Bags worth of blue climbing rope left
In a choice of Black or Field canvas
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