| The
rag-jacket-making process starts with an awful lot of
shopping for material, and the tailoring of hand-made
black waistcoats. This takes a while. Once the party convenes and stops drinking tea, the first step is to take the carefully-purchasing material and reduce it to rags. Eddie demonstates the cutting process. |
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The cut strips
after then pinned onto the waistcoats following a
carefully designed sequence. Susie instructs Eddie in this mystic art, while Jane and Diane do some more cutting-up. |
| Vera quality-checks Isobels pinning. |  |
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Then the happy
workers in the machining department sew on the layer of
pinned rags. Pam telling Alison how much she enjoys her work. |
| Meanwhile, out
in the garage, something stirs. Jenny, Doug, Mike G and Joe are whittling, shaving and sanding the sticks that we coppiced a year ago. |
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Dave Y, Dave K
and Mike G on the final strokes of sanding their sticks. Dave K seems to enjoy this. |
| The end product
of the stick-making. I think we made about 40 sticks that day - nearly enough to last us a year. |
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The lubrication
that keeps the wheels turning. Chris with some of the tea consumed during the day. |