As regular readers will guess, the church biscuit has not been high on my list of priorities in recent weeks, although they have made more of an appearance than apparent from the blog. Here are a couple of biscuits I did manage to make for coffee in church before the election. I surprised myself by starting […]

Suzani is the name of the very distinctive embroidery produced in Uzbekistan, mainly the cities of Tashkent, Nurata, Samarkand, Bukhara and Shahrisabz, each place producing work with a local twist which helps those who know about these things to distinguish the place of origin of any given embroidery. The western fashion for vintage Sunzanis has […]