Video of Shu Making

Acapmedia have finished editing film which Alex Robertson and I took in Chitral, N.W. Pakistan. It shows the process of shu making. It will make you want to go to Chitral, which you should!

http://www.vimeo.com/acapmedia/hindukush

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 Silk Crepe de Chine Scarf

I have just got back a silk crepe de chine scarf from the printers. It is super-thin and a bit like raw silk to the touch. Very classy.

The Lady's Jacket

Yesterday a friend very kindly modeled the lady's jacket for me. See the results below!

The white shu is not bleached, just the natural colour of the wool. The collar is of soft Donegal tweed and the buttons are lined in the same. The collar buttons are brown horn and the lining is a heavy weight synthetic satin. The cut loosely follows that of a hacking jacket.

The Double Whammy

This handsome man is my dad. He is sporting the jacket over the waistcoat. It feels surprisingly comfortable wearing both, the jacket's cut is loose enough for the wearer not to feel constricted, even when the jacket is done up. It is of course, very warm... especially in Summer.

A Lady's Scarf

I have been working on turning the leopard and markhor design into a lady's scarf. The idea is that it would be digitally printed onto something like pashmina or for a lighter weight version, silk.

Jacket and Waistcoat Modeled for Website

Yesterday, my friend Jake obligingly modeled the waistcoat and the jacket for the website...

The Himalayan Edelweiss

The lady's coat is back from the tailor. No pictures of it yet I am afraid, but there will be soon! I have done a little drawing of a Himalayan Edelweiss to go inside it. I saw quite a few of these in 2006 near Baroghil around the Karumba lake on the border with Afghanistan's Wakhan corridor. It's a beautiful area of high altitude pasture, famed for it's wild flowers... and very remote, it take 3 days or so to walk in from the jeep road. I pressed quite a few flowers (below) and also started a drawing of local Wakhi women spinning wool- the same technique which is used in the manufacture of shu.