Comments on: A Spitalfields weaver’s stool

By: Marigold Gorick

Marigold Gorick — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 12:37:00 +0000

With the wide end planks cut into four feet by V-shapes being removed, I’m so struck by many similarities between this stool and the much smaller one my Grandfather made so that my Grandmother could reach the top shelves of the larder in the house they bought in Surrey.

Could it be that my Great Grandmother, a self employed garment maker when they lived in Cheshire street had worked from a similar stool to your? Or could it be that despite not knowing at that point that his family were French Huguenots, stools being designed and made this way was a meme that passed down the generations when information about ancestry and origin didn’t?

By: Rosie Kennedy

Rosie Kennedy — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 17:24:49 +0000

I am loving your articles. I have the same feelings about historical things like this. Reminds me of my aunt who was still using a metal collander that she had used during the blitz in London (on her head, tied with string through the handles) as she used to help the ARP’s and there were chunks out the the base (she told me shrapnel!!!!!) and the thing was pretty battered. I used to laugh about it and said that was the only thing I wanted when she died (Didn’t get it cos her son thought it was a bit of tat and threw it out) I was heartbroken.

Sorry to go on……………..

I am going through the archives so you may hear from me again……….sorry

By: MARIA

MARIA — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:21:07 +0000

thank you for rescuing this – most people who had seen it and recognised it (if there were any others that actually did) would have looked at it sorrowfully, felt pity for it, and then continued on their way