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The Italian Diaspora

You may be forgiven for thinking that the Italian Diaspora sounds like another delicious Italian ice-cream confection. But it actually represents a huge and largely forgotten human-interest story over a hundred years old, although its significance is very relevant to our lives today. Have you ever wondered why there is such a plethora of establishments and businesses that make and sell their rich and delicious ice-cream in this area, many of them with Italian names, for example Mieles of Forres, Mieles of Lossiemouth, Rizzas of Huntly, Bicocci of Fraserburgh and Capaldi of Inverness.

where they caught the passenger liners from Glasgow that were, at that time, the only means of traversing the Atlantic. However, when

Today, news articles on TV and in newspapers tell us of mass migration of peoples from the Middle East and Africa, fleeing wars and poverty to seek a better life in Europe. But this is not a modern phenomenon.

From 1861, twenty nine million Italians emigrated to other countries to escape poverty, drought and famine, the majority leaving before the outbreak of WW1. This was largely caused by the fallout following the dismantling of the feudal system and the Unification of Italy whereby several single states were united into the Italian kingdom we are all familiar with. It is a strange twist of fate that this is the self-same country that so many take terrible risks to travel to now. In the first instance young men left to earn a living to support their family back home and used Scotland as a stopping point en-route for America,

America changed its immigration policy it effectively closed its doors on many of the poorest from southern Europe, leaving many of them here in Scotland.

Coincidental to the arrival of the Italians, in the 1870s German engineer Carl von Linde developed a process for industrial refrigeration that would revolutionise the production of ice-cream, which had hitherto relied on the laborious gathering and storage of ice during the winter. Most wealthy estates boasted their own ice-houses, with ice-cream being a luxury reserved for special occasions. At this early stage ice-cream was produced from a hand-cranked churn, which used ice and salt for cooling.

The displaced Italians favoured Scotland and initially settled in the large cities becoming pedlars, selling from door-to-door, often things they made themselves. Most were of farming stock and so quickly recognised the quality of the milk produced by cows fed on the rich pastureland of Scotland. Thus they seized the opportunity to progress

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by becoming “hokey pokey” men selling ice cream from barrows. They then began to set up cafes in working class areas selling a combination of ice cream and fish and chips, utilising other widely available Scottish produce, namely fish and potatoes. These were family businesses with the owners and employees often working fourteenhour days, seven days a week. It has been suggested that it was the Italians that popularised the “fish supper”, and many Scottish towns today still have an Italian chippy.

One such establishment is the Northern Restaurant on the High Street in Forres, established by Filippo Iannetta in the 1920s, and currently owned by Carlo Miele. The Miele family, farming stock, originating from the region of Cassino in central Italy, had been driven from the land they had worked for one hundred and seventy-five years by poverty. Michel Miele, Carlo’s grandfather, already working in the Northern Restaurant, took over the business in 1929/1930. Carlo is proud of his Italian heritage and to be the third generation of the Miele family to run the business.

Carlo began by working in the ice-cream van in 1976 thus continuing

Clifton Road, Lossiemouth, originally established by Italian, Luigi

the traditions of the original “hokey pokey” men. With locally sourced

Zaccharini. In the late twenties Domenico opened his own confec-

and natural ingredients, they still make their delicious ice-cream to

tionary shop in Huntly. Today Rizzas are based in a modern, purpose

their original recipe, on their premises in the High Street. Carlo can

built factory in Huntly that is capable of producing 1,500 litres of

relate stories of how, in the past, the milk was collected from the local

ice-cream per hour for the wholesale market.

farmer by a bike and cart. How times change. However, modern production processes mean that it now only takes two hours to make

Despite these success stories, life for the Italian immigrants was not

twenty gallons of ice-cream, a far cry from the ancient hand-cranked

always easy, right from the outset. Their appearance, language and

churn.

Roman Catholic faith were viewed as unclean and irreligious by many of the Protestant Scots. There were public complaints that the Italians

Another Italian success story that closely mirrors Miele’s is Rizza’s.

kept their places of business open for long hours on the Sabbath.

Also originating from Cassino, the Rizza family began to arrive in

Early 20th century reports in the Glasgow Herald recount that some

Scotland around 1907. The Rizza brothers, James and Domenico, began

church officials condemned Italian ice-cream shops as “immoral,

making ice-cream to their own recipe in 1914 when they opened their

corrupt and encouraging licentiousness.” By the 1920s fascism was

first business in Keith. Domenico Rizza eventually took over a shop in

making headway and the Italians in Scotland were believed to be

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linked to the movement, reinforcing the belief that they were an “alien, outside people”.

A lasting reminder of the Italian prisoners and internees still exists on Lamb Holm in The Orkney where they were sent to construct the

But worse was to occur in WW2 when, following Benito Mussolini’s

Churchill Barriers. Constructed from spare materials that we would

declaration of war on the Allies in 1940. Most Italian immigrants had

consider rubbish, the Italian chapel was made from two Nissen huts

no allegiance to Mussolini but they were still officially classified as

joined end to end. Light holders were made from corned beef tins,

“enemy aliens” by the UK Government. The result of this ruling was

while the baptismal font owed it existence to a car exhaust. Despite

thousands of Italian men, who had lived for decades in the UK, were

its constituent parts being more properly located on a rubbish dump,

arrested and sent to internment camps in Orkney, the Isle of Man and

the overall finished article is spectacular. Most of the internal

Northern Ireland amongst others. Italian businesses were attacked and

decoration was carried out by Domenico Chocchetti, a prisoner from

vandalised. The women and children were left to struggle, suffering

Moena. It is now a popular tourist attraction and a Category A listed

with mistrust and discrimination. Our own corner of the world was

building.

not exempt from the attacks. Carlo Miele tells how members of his own family were interned, with their shop on the Forres High Street

Such events have been poignantly portrayed by author Joe Pieri in his

attacked and damaged. Rationing also meant that ice-cream manufac-

books titled “The Scots-Italians: Recollections of an immigrant” and

ture ceased during the war years.

“Rivers of Memory” where he recalls being nicknamed “Tally” by the Scottish boys at school.

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The greatest tragedy of WW2 for the Italians occurred on 2nd July 1940. A cruise liner, named the Arandora Star ladened with over one thousand prisoners left Liverpool, bound for prison camps in Canada.

Off the Irish coast the vessel was torpedoed by a German U-boat and sunk. It is reported that four hundred and eighty six Italians lost their lives in the incident; the exact number of internees as opposed to POWs is not known.

After the war, with life normalising, Italian businesses revived, grew in number and flourished to often become high class establishments. A recent Italian voter census estimated that there are currently between seventy and one hundred thousand people in Scotland of Italian descent, representing 1.9% of the Scottish population. Italians have contributed much to Scottish culture with many becoming notable

Turning to our modern immigration, issues I am left wondering what an article such as this, written one hundred years hence, might show.

What marks will the Syrian and other Asian populations leave on our culture? Will they become new ingredients to be added to the rich mixture that forms the Scottish tradition and culture like the Italian Diaspora?

and achieving fame such as Tom Conti (actor), Peter Capaldi (actor and director), Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (sculptor) and Paul di Resta (Formula 1 racer) to name just a few. Italy today is Scotland’s fifth most important trading partner with Scottish exports to Italy close to two billion pounds. The effects of Brexit on this statistic have still to be realised.

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Contrary to the popular belief that Scotland has three native equines, it actually has four; the Clydesdale, massive, powerful and originating from the central belt, the Highland pony, traditionally used for light draught, farm and hill work, the Shetland pony, tiny, useful and from the islands, and another island breed, the Eriskay pony.

advancing agriculture and influencing breeding in these countries.

Each breed has its own place in history and each has made its

keeps Highland ponies there.

mark on Scotland’s development and continues to be of use in today’s world.

By comparison to the Clydesdale, the Highland pony is smaller. He is however Scotland’s largest pony standing up to 14.2 hands high and is quite capable of carrying an average adult in comfort. The breed has traditionally been used as a light draught horse on the farm, out on the hill for carrying deer carcasses, for trekking and pleasure riding and for shepherding. Even Queen Victoria regularly rode a Highland pony when at Balmoral and today HM The Queen still

Thickset and resilient the Highland pony is capable of living out in all weathers and is happy to stand with his back against driving rain

The Clydesdale horse is Scotland’s largest native equine, very

or sleet providing he is well fed and can find natural shelter.

distinctive and easily recognisable. With his huge dinner plate

His generally tractable nature makes the Highland ideal as a family

like feet and heavy feathering, the Clydesdale is usually bay or

pony, indeed many can be ridden by an adult one day and by a child

brown with white legs and possibly a white blaze to his face.

on a lead-rein the next. The breed also makes a good driving pony;

He can though be roan, black or possibly even grey.

The breed derived from mares local to the Clydesdale area, now known as Lanarkshire, being crossed with imported Flemish Great Horses. From the offspring of these first crossings the horses that we know today as Clydesdales evolved. Though not as large as their English cousin, the Shire, the Clydesdale is a strong draught horse and can pull loads that are considered to be of great weight. His calm nature makes him easy to work with and although ousted in the main from Scottish farms after the second World War by the introduction of tractors following the effects of the disease known as grass sickness, which still causes many equine deaths each year, he can been seen working in the show ring and at ploughing matches.

One of the biggest turnouts of Clydesdale horses in Scotland each year is at the Royal Highland show held in June at

not unusual when you stop

Ingliston, Edinburgh. There, horses are shown as teams of four,

to think that they were driven

pairs and singles. Behind them they draw vehicles as diverse as

in farm carts to local markets as

farm carts and brewery drays. They are cheered in the ring as

late as the 1940s.

they perform and compete and are admired in their stables whilst being washed, groomed and prepared to perfection.

A number of Highland ponies sport a dorsal stripe down the spine and

In common with other Scottish native breeds of horse and

zebra markings on the legs, only

pony, many Clydesdale horses have been exported to other

visible on light coloured ponies, some

parts of the world. Canada, America, Australia and New

of which are various shades of dun.

Zealand all have active communities of Clydesdales. In these

Many Highland pony foals lighten as

far off countries the Clydesdale horse has made his mark

they age.

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Smallest and possibly cutest of the Scottish breeds is the Shetland. His tiny hooves, full mane and cheeky attitude endear him to adults and children alike; many of our top equestrians started out mounted on one of these active little ponies. There isn’t much that this diminutive pony can’t do and from driving to pack pony he’s been there, done it and got the tee-shirt.

The Shetland is a pretty pony and most colours, except spotted, are to be found in the breed. He stands no more than 42 inches at the wither and has a wonderful coat that sheds the weather and is able to protect him through a Scottish winter. He’s strong, tough and resilient, characteristics that made the breed attractive and desirable to mine owners in the 1800s for pulling tubs and moving coal below ground.

Bred on the Shetland isles the breed evolved to stand island storms and weather conditions. With grazing on the islands scarce and reserved for other livestock, Shetland ponies learned to eke out an existence on rough grazing, machair and the seashore.

Crofters on Shetland utilised the immense strength of these ponies for work on the crofts, carrying creels, peat and seaweed.

They were also used as riding ponies for adults and harnessed in teams or pairs for ploughing. Today these ponies are used for driving and as children’s riding ponies. They’ve also been used as circus ponies and each year many compete in the Shetland Grand National, a series of racing competitions drawing great crowds to witness the speed at which this breed can actually go.

The final of our Scottish native breeds is the Eriskay although some doubt that this is in fact a separate breed. With many similarities to the Highland breed, the Eriskay originated on the Western Isles. Due to isolation that protected the breed from cross-breeding with imported stallions as happened on other more accessible islands, the Eriskay is the sole survivor of a range of Western Isles ponies. Such was the number of these ponies at one time that the Highland Pony Society recognised two types of Highland; the mainland and heavier type that we know as a Highland pony today and the lighter type of island pony now known as the Eriskay.

The Eriskay evolved to live with people and not for nothing was the breed known as the ‘back door pony’. His nature meant that he

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could be handled and used by the women and children of the family - useful when the men were away at sea. In common with the Shetland pony, the Eriskay was able to live off meagre rations and thrive on the worst of forage and was used to work the croft and as a general fetch and carry pony.

Wiry and standing at around 12.2 hands high, the breed is almost always grey in colour and he is a generally calm and quiet pony.

He is also capable of withstanding the bad weather of the islands thanks to his coat and weather resistant mane and tail. The Eriskay makes an ideal ride or drive animal and can be ridden by lightweight adults successfully.

Sadly today three out of the four Scottish native breeds of equines are deemed rare. This ultimately means that the Clydesdale, Highland pony and Eriskay are low in numbers. There’s far more to increasing these breeds numerically than just breeding more of them; it isn’t that simple. Horses and ponies of all types are currently being handed in to rescue and re-homing centres all over the UK. This is due to over-breeding and a downturn in the economic situation that many horse owners find themselves in.

Basically there are too many horses and ponies of all kinds out there and too few homes for them, to add more would simply perpetuate the problem.

What we must do is appreciate the Scottish native equines that we have and only breed when we need to, ensuring that these horses and ponies are wanted. Rare breeds can often have limited gene pools, this means that what breeding does take place must be done with care; inbreeding has in some instances and in other breeds of equines, caused life limiting health problems, something that no-one wants.

That all Scottish native breeds of equine have played a part in the history of the country is not in doubt. All of them have been at the backbone of Scottish agriculture in one way or another and some of them were at the forefront of Scottish industry in previous centuries being used in towns and emerging cities where goods needed to be moved. Scotland truly owes these native breeds of equines a debt of gratitude.

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A rich vein of artistic talent exists in the Highlands and Moray. It might be inspired by the beauty of the landscapes and vistas found where mountains meet the Firth. Or perhaps our comparative isolation on the outermost fringes of Europe lends a unique perspective.

“Leaning of a Gate” followed later by a column for the Glasgow

Jane Yeadon, a highly acclaimed and best-selling author, is a

published by Librario Publishing and described by Sue Macgregor

“daughter of Moray”, having been born and then lived in this part of

as a valuable account of Moray farm life.

the world for much of her life. Petite and always busy, with a

In Jane’s latest novel “Telling Tales”, published in 2015 by Black and

perpetual good-humoured smile, Jane puts me in mind of the

White Publishing, she illustrates her mother’s strict discipline

industrious and endearing little wren.

towards her writing regime, as follows: “Tomorrow is Monday, the

In considering her literary career, Jane admits to being a “late

day our widowed mother chooses to be herself writing newspaper

developer” having first pursued her dream of a long and varied

articles about everyday life on an upland Morayshire farm. Since

career in the nursing profession that included being a midwife

family discord isn’t her chosen subject, we’re not useful material.

and a district nurse in the Highlands. Indeed, her rich and

Now, bonded in the adversity of a having a mother who’s about to

varied experiences have provided much material for her greatly

forget she is one, we hurry to grab our coats……” In her book Jane

admired books.

describes her own life from a childhood perspective. The story is

Jane puts her love of the written word down to a “writing gene” that

told in an engaging manner that brings immediacy to the

flows through her family. Her parents, Elizabeth and Ian

recollections of her early years, free from care and worries.

Macpherson, were already established authors and journalists when

Although times must have been difficult in that post-war era, her

they took up a tenancy on Tombain, a small farm on the edge of the

young life sounds full and rich, complete with a large and varied

Dava Moor between Forres and Grantown-on-Spey, where Jane and

supporting cast that includes Dod, the farm manager, Smithy, the

her elder sister, Elizabeth, were born. Ian managed to combine

land girl together with Frankie, an ill-tempered Ayrshire bull and

writing with farming and his novels are judged to have made a

Duck, to name but a few. She also vividly describes “going on

significant contribution to Scottish twentieth century literature.

holiday to see Granny in Nairn”. It transpires that Granny, Isabel

Sadly, Jane never knew her father as he was tragically killed in a

Cameron, was also blessed with the “writing gene”, having written

motorbike accident when she was just six weeks old.

books and telling gripping tales in which Jane and her sister

After his death, her mother Elizabeth took to writing a weekly

Elizabeth were always funny, clever heroines.

column in “The Bulletin and Scots Pictorial”, under the title

Jane’s first three books chronicle her life throughout a long and

Herald entitled, “In the Country”. Many years later, in 2005, this led to Jane’s first foray into the writing world when, in collaboration with her sister Elizabeth, they assembled many of their mother’s articles into a book appropriately entitled, “Leaning on a Gate”

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varied career in the nursing profession.

David, Jane moved to Forres where she continued to enjoy her

Her first book titled, “It Won’t Hurt a Bit”, published by Black and

nursing career at the local Leanchoil Hospital. Jane is a well-known

White in 2010, is the story of how she decides to leave her beloved

and popular member of the community. Accompanying her down

farm, where she was raised, to take up nursing. Against the

the High Street is to experience waves and greetings from all

backdrop of the Swinging Sixties when the world finally shrugged

directions. Although Jane’s two children, Joanne and Mark, have

off the privations of the war years, to find a new freedom and

inherited their mother’s adventurous spirit and travel the world, the

liberation, especially for women, Jane describes her many adventures

writing gene has yet to manifest itself in them. But should they

as a nursing trainee. With her warm and unique sense of humour,

follow their mother’s example, there’s still plenty of time.

Jane describes her new friends and events that patterned their lives

More recently Jane has been working on a collaborative project with

from the gruelling training to scary matrons and difficult patients.

the Anderson’s Primary School to produce a children’s book titled,

A second book, “It Shouldn’t Happen to a Midwife”, followed two

“The Ancient Secret of Cloven Hill” in which she draws on

years later in 2012. This sequel tells of Jane’s escapades following

inspiration and ideas directly from the children.

her basic training when she moved onto an exciting new life as a

Always generous of her time and expertise in supporting other

student midwife at the Royal Maternity Hospital in Belfast. With

aspiring writers, Jane is an active member of ForWords, the Forres

new challenges and colleagues, she is thrown in at the deep end and

writing group where her advice, together with her ever- cheery good

quickly discovers that straightforward births in the R.M.H are a

humour are much valued and appreciated. Jane’s followers are

rare occurrence. All this is set against Belfast’s divided community

eagerly anticipating her next book.

as it inevitably plunges towards “the Troubles” that are soon to blow it apart.

“Call me Sister”, published in 2014, chronicles Jane’s fulfilment of her dream to become a district nurse Ross-shire in the Highlands.

Again, a cast of quirky characters is beautifully portrayed, recalling Highland life from a bygone age, which although recent, is now all but disappeared. An entertaining counterpoint is provided by Jane’s experiences when doing her training in Edinburgh – from the countryside to the capital. This part of her story includes an amusing scene recalling how she meets up with her future husband, David, whose family owned a hotel in Forres. After her marriage to

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Anne Cameron

Anne’s quilting delights

by Heidi M. Sands.

Anne Cameron lives on Speyside, close to the picturesque village of

weakness or strength depending on how you look at it, she’s never

Archiestown surrounded by some of the area’s most stunning scenery;

looked back.

scenery that has, over the years, inspired much of her work as a quilter.

Although quilts are Anne’s main interest, she also makes wall hangings Patchwork quilts have been in existence for centuries and were at the

and the most delightful button trees; handmade button applied wall

height of their popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries. Most usually

hangings where the trunk of the tree is created by a process called

used as bed coverings, quilts have been made from a variety of

‘couching’, which actually reflects the different textures of a tree trunk.

materials throughout time and while left over fabrics were sometimes

These beautiful button trees have additions in the form of butterflies

used to make quilts, at others quilt

or ladybirds depending on the tree, season

making was seen as a genteel pastime;

or colours depicted in them.

only the wealthy having the available time in which to pursue the craft.

Whilst most of Anne’s work is done in her

Quilting evolved as techniques

workroom of her farmhouse home, the

changed due to economics and needs.

summerhouse in the garden is for Anne ‘her

What didn’t alter though was the

special room’, where she does much of her

vibrancy and usefulness of these

thinking. No wonder really, as the summer-

quilts, a vibrancy and usefulness that

house looks out across farmland where

Anne Cameron brings to her own

Anne’s Highland cattle graze and wander.

work.

Clearly important to her, Anne dotes on her cattle Daisy and Eve, providing them with

Anne first began sewing 30 years ago,

the best of care. A country woman at heart,

making clothes for her children but it

Anne’s work reflects what she sees around

wasn’t until 2007 that she became

her. One of the wall hangings in Anne’s

hooked on quilt making. Answering an

farmhouse depicts a window scene and uses

advert in a local newspaper, Anne

embroidery on a linen background to show

went along to a taster session on quilt

the countryside in all its glory, reminding her

making at the delightfully named

of her own early years growing up on a farm

‘Puddleduck Patch’ in Cullen. The

near Ballygawley in Northern Ireland.

requirements were a sewing machine and a ‘quarter of an inch foot’ – Anne had no idea what the term

Designs for Anne’s work either come from something she’s seen in

meant, but went along anyway and was dismayed to find that quilting

nature, from her imagination or books of quilt designs. For Anne

required precision and accuracy. Thinking that all this sounded too

though, the underlying theme of her creations is the fabric that she

much like maths and not her thing at all, Anne decided she’d help by

chooses and the marrying of fabrics and colours together to create

making the tea and sweeping up. Thankfully, as the day progressed,

just the right effect. She also feels that the whole quilt, including the

Anne began to learn some of the techniques required for quilting and

backing, must be up to the same standard and so important is this to

found that she enjoyed it so much, that she booked onto the first of

Anne that her quilts can be, in the main, turned over and used on the

what was to become a series of classes.

reverse without worry about ragged edges or uneven finishes.

Armed with a rotary cutter; essential for quilting, her sewing machine,

With an average quilt taking anything between 3 – 6 months, Anne’s

rulers and the all important ‘quarter of an inch foot’ which Anne found

work evolves depending on what she has on her agenda and the

was a measured length of fabric, she chose her very first design to

intricacy of the quilt she is working on. Currently making a children’s

make a small quilt and loving the fabric so much; fabric being her

quilt for her granddaughter with a pony theme – her granddaughter is 35

mad about ponies, Anne has sourced a backing to reflect this love of

Everything on Anne’s quilts, no matter how small or insignificant is

horses complete with sleeping ponies on it.

there for a purpose, it hasn’t happened by accident. For example the colours on her Plum Creek inspired quilt indicate the motion of water

Anne sources her materials from far and wide including locally in Elgin,

and a second Little House on the Prairie inspired quilt shows a lamp

from Cullen’s fabric shop ‘Patch of Blue’, in Alford and off the internet.

that America’s first pioneers often lit and held in their windows to light

Her quilts will last a lifetime as she only ever uses 100% cotton and

the way home for those yet to arrive.

can be passed onto future generations. Her quilts are quite often used in place of a duvet or over the top of one to give an old-fashioned feel

Anne asked me to name my favourite of her quilts; difficult to do at first glance, so beautiful are

to bedroom decor.

all her works. On reflection Made with love and care, Anne’s

though a rustic coloured

quilts have gone all over the world.

single bed quilt caught my

Lady Irwin from Craigellachie bought

eye. With appliquéd leaves

one to send to Dubai; others have

and houses made from

been purchased by visitors to

recycled fabric, this was an

Speyside and gone to the USA while

old fashioned type of quilt.

some stay nearer to home. Anne

Some of the squares had a

creates quilts that she herself would

loose-edged finish to them

like; others are commissions. Clients

and the brushed cotton

generally give Anne a colour

backing only added to the

preference with which to begin,

old fashioned feel. In

giving her free rein to work on the

complete contrast was a

design. As Anne says colour is

large double bed quilt in

all-important; there’s no point making

lovely striking ‘picnicy’

a pink quilt to go in a blue room. For

colours. Very vibrant and

many clients seeing a quilt before

almost like a sunflower, the

they buy is all-important. Quilts are

material used reflected the

very tactile and people need to feel

feel of summer and the

and see the quality before they purchase.

work on the underside was as lovely as that on the top.

Making a quilt requires accuracy and while some parts of a quilt are

Anne’s home is filled with colour; she clearly has an eye for it. On her

hand sewn, others are machined. The use of a self-healing cutting

chairs she has examples of cushions, the covers of which she has

board and rotary cutter are paramount, as too are sewing rulers. The

made. She’s also interested in making table runners with fabric sourced

process begins by choosing a design, the fabric is measured and cut

from France where she goes each year to Provence. She’s also begun

accurately before a quarter of an inch seam is sewed in. These seams

making ‘infinity scarves’ out of Liberty fabric. These scarves are

are then cut according to what is being made and the pattern being

beautifully soft and have no beginning and no end, being worn

followed, pressing the seams as you go. Assembling the quilt into

entwined around the neck to enhance blouses and tops with their

individual blocks that are then pieced together, results in the quilt top.

colours and designs.

A wadding then goes under the top and the backing goes underneath the wadding, creating three layers of quilt. Then the real fun begins as

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Anne chooses her method of actual quilting, for example, ‘free motion’

Anne’s character is as sunny and vibrant as her work and is reflected in

where patterns or stylised animals, birds or leaves are sewn into the

the quilts that she works so tirelessly on. Her work can be viewed on

top of the quilt, or ‘in the ditch’ quilting where sewn lines follow the

line at www.speysidequilts.co.uk or

seems on the top of the quilt. Once at this stage, the quilt has it’s

www.facebook.com/speysidequiltsanne/

binding applied around the edges and to finish it off Anne labels all

Anne can be contacted by phoning. 07788175857

her quilts.

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The latter project is not unusual as Shona frequently makes

one thing that remained constant is that stained glass was

stained glass for public buildings, explaining...

there to tell a story: be the viewer rich or poor, educated or

“It's a common misconception that stained glass is purely an

illiterate, the appeal of stained glass was universal and the

ecclesiastical art but actually it's an architectural art which can

story of the scriptures was told in a visual way which was

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accessible to all.

ever changing play of coloured light can create a special

The process of making a stained glass window remains

ambience in any space, whether it's a hospital chapel,

virtually unchanged since medieval times. The glass cutting,

corporate entrance foyer or mezzanine bedroom in a steading

leading and painted detail is still done by hand. However,

conversion. People are instantly uplifted when light streams

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into a room on a sunny day. Combine that light with colour

a 15th century glazier would have used a diamond tipped

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cutter, today's artist uses a tungsten carbide wheel.

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According to Shona, a frequent misunderstanding is that

Mankind's relationship with coloured light goes back over a

stained glass artists actually 'colour' their own glass, which

thousand years. The oldest preserved stained glass windows

has never been the case.

are in Augsburg Cathedral in Germany but it was through the

“The confusion comes from the term 'silver staining' where

birth of Gothic architecture in the 12th century that stained

Ƥ

glass really developed. A new way of building churches meant

kiln, which leaves a yellow tint on it’s surface. However, the

the roof weight was carried on exterior buttresses, allowing

actual coloured sheets of glass we cut our shapes from are

larger and taller window apertures to be introduced into walls

made by skilled glassblowers. Colour is created by adding

without compromising their strength. Through the

metallic salts to molten glass in a furnace. For example,

subsequent centuries both the design of stained glass

cobalt makes blue glass, manganese makes purple. It's a

windows and their content has evolved as a direct result of

complex and controlled process and many companies have

changes in architecture and glass technology. However, the

secret 'recipies' for colours going back generations. There

The latter project is not unusual as Shona frequently makes

one thing that remained constant is that stained glass was

stained glass for public buildings, explaining...

there to tell a story: be the viewer rich or poor, educated or

“It's a common misconception that stained glass is purely an

illiterate, the appeal of stained glass was universal and the

ecclesiastical art but actually it's an architectural art which can

story of the scriptures was told in a visual way which was

ơ ơ Ǥ

accessible to all.

ever changing play of coloured light can create a special

The process of making a stained glass window remains

ambience in any space, whether it's a hospital chapel,

virtually unchanged since medieval times. The glass cutting,

corporate entrance foyer or mezzanine bedroom in a steading

leading and painted detail is still done by hand. However,

conversion. People are instantly uplifted when light streams

ơ ǣ

into a room on a sunny day. Combine that light with colour

a 15th century glazier would have used a diamond tipped

̹ Ƥ

cutter, today's artist uses a tungsten carbide wheel.

ƪ Ǥdz

According to Shona, a frequent misunderstanding is that

Mankind's relationship with coloured light goes back over a

stained glass artists actually 'colour' their own glass, which

thousand years. The oldest preserved stained glass windows

has never been the case.

are in Augsburg Cathedral in Germany but it was through the

“The confusion comes from the term 'silver staining' where

birth of Gothic architecture in the 12th century that stained

Ƥ

glass really developed. A new way of building churches meant

kiln, which leaves a yellow tint on it’s surface. However, the

the roof weight was carried on exterior buttresses, allowing

actual coloured sheets of glass we cut our shapes from are

larger and taller window apertures to be introduced into walls

made by skilled glassblowers. Colour is created by adding

without compromising their strength. Through the

metallic salts to molten glass in a furnace. For example,

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