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Tin Embroidery

A heritage craft from the women of the Miao minority group in Guizhou Province, PR China. Miao women of Jianhe County weave cloth on wooden looms in their homes using cotton threads. They use the indigo plant to dye their woven white cloth to create dark hues that will showcase their tin embroidery patterns. Indigo, black and red are the traditional colours used as a backdrop to showcase their intricate tin embroidery.

Blessed are the Cheesemakers! 'Bleu de Termignon'

BLEU DE TERMIGNON

A highly unusual blue cheese, made in a 700-year-old chalet in the French Alps  

“The people who spend all day tasting and smelling cheese? This is the one that’s sufficiently amazing and interesting and fascinating for them to happily go home at the end of the day and to sit and eat more cheese.” Recommendations don’t come much higher than that."

Type: Blue
Milk: Raw cow's milk cheese
Animal breed: Tarine and Abondance
Size of cheese: 40cm
Weight: 6kg
Location: Termignon, Savoie, Rhône-Alps
Altitude: 1300m
Season: Summer Production (available Nov till May)
Scale: Farmhouse (18 cows)