I mentioned reverse appliqué decoration in my posts on Vietnamese  skirts and afterwards I remembered that when daughter No 2 spent her gap year inVietnam 15 years ago she had brought back several simple little zipped purses decorated in this way. I had an idea where one of these purses was and once I’d picked off the […]

  When daughter No 2 was back in England over Christmas we spent a happy afternoon unpacking a trunk and taking an inventory of pottery brought back from Vietnam over the last couple of years.  The photos give just a few examples of shapes are sizes  but these are mainly smaller items to be given […]