Excuse for not blogging!

I owe you a serious apology for the complete and utter lack of content that has not been appearing on the Beckford Silk Blog!

I started off with oh so many good intensions which all went by the way side as soon as we started getting busy.

What can I say?

SILK SCARVES ARE BACK WITH A VENGEANCE!!

From about October last year we started to get seriously busy with orders for our Museum customers – and I’m delighted to say there’s still no sign of it letting up. In February alone we despatched more orders than in January, February and March put together 12 months previously.

I think we can put this down to a number of factors:

·         When times are tough then rather than splashing out on a new outfit, we’re more inclined to treat ourselves to an accessory that will jazz up an old one. Hence the sudden revival of the silk scarf.

·         Made in the UK is the buzz on the street! And as one of the only silk scarf suppliers in the UK actually producing it all ourselves in the UK, this is giving us a major advantage over the competition.

·         And of course we are now a one-stop-shop for silk scarves, offering traditional screen printing, digital printing and the highly sought after handrolling of the edges (done by a small band of local ladies).

So where will you find our scarves at the moment?

There’s still time to catch the Bowie exhibition at the V&A where we’ve had enormous success with the long geometric design scarf inspired by a jump suit he wore as Ziggy. Here’s Suzanne hard at work packing them.

Suzanne packing Ziggy scarves for the Bowie exhibition at the V&A

The Gary Hume exhibition at Tate Britain has two of his scarf designs in the gift shop. I snapped Beth as she was working on the print colours for one of the designs.

Beth working on dye recipes for the Gary Hume design

And if you are going to see the view from The Shard then have a look in the gift shop for this memento of your visit – one of two scarf designs we have produced for them. This one is a photograph of the building shimmering ghostly against a night sky.

Scarf designed for The Shard London

So that’s it for this time – I promise not to leave it so long!