Brooks Family Threads

19/08/2026

Support your local artisans at this year's Fairville Artisan Fair. November 21 - I'll be there - hope to see you!

11/08/2026

My craft goes way back….

In the old Scottish cottages nothing was ever truly wasted, not even the clothes worn to rags. 🧵

On the cold stone floors of croft houses and tenement rooms alike, one of the warmest and most personal things in the whole home was the rag rug, hooked by hand at the fireside through the long dark evenings. Every worn out shirt, faded dress, outgrown coat and threadbare blanket was cut into narrow strips and pulled, one loop at a time, through a stretched backing of old hessian sacking. Nothing was bought. The whole rug was made from the family's own worn clothes.

It was slow, patient work, often done by the women and children of the house as the peat fire glowed and the kettle sang. Some rugs were made in simple bands of colour, others in careful patterns, and now and then a proud crofter's wife would work a whole picture into hers. When it was finished it was laid before the hearth or beside the box bed, the first thing bare feet touched on a freezing morning.

And here is the tender part. A rag rug was quite literally woven from a family's life. In its mingled colours were the strips of a father's old working shirt, a bairn's outgrown dress, a grandmother's Sunday best long past mending. Every rug was a quiet patchwork of the people who had worn those clothes, warmth made from memory.

When times were hard, and in Scotland they often were, this was thrift raised to an art, beauty made from what little there was. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Long after the makers were gone, these humble rugs stayed by the fire, holding the whole family underfoot, colour by colour, life by life.

11/08/2026

Very cool idea.

14/06/2026

Sneak peak - a great artisan show and ICE CREAM AT Woodside Farm Creamery September 26 11 -5. Brooks Family Threads and Mary Coleman will be doing our thing again! Don't miss it!.

14/06/2026

A lovely artisan show yesterday at the Chester County Craft Guild Summer Show another one coming in the fall chestercountycraftguild.org/event/fall-fine-craft-fair -10/31 and 11/1 - Mary Coleman shined as always!

07/06/2026

Lovely day for supporting your local artisans. Clover Market, Kennett Square, TODAY 10-4.

07/06/2026

A lovely day to be out supporting your local artisans! Clover Market today Kennett 10-4.

06/06/2026

this Sunday, 6/7 10-4. Come visit some wonderful local artisans. Support Makers!!

05/06/2026

Don't miss a lovely artisan show right here in Kennett area! 10 - 4 Sunday June 7 - Brooks Family Threads and Mary Coleman Fabrics will there - Booth #14. Come visit~!

Next stop - don't miss it - another great artisan fair in Kennett Square, PA. Clover Market. Come see so many talented makers. June 7th.