Sitka (and the humans!) are thrilled with the crop of Black Currants this year. Apparently they like cool wet springs, followed by a blast of hot weather!
Lady Frances’s final garment is a Robe à la Française, made of a length of butter yellow silk from Lady Frances’s trunk, and making good use of Janet Arnold’s wonderful book Patterns of Fashion 1 – Englishwomen’s dresses 1660 – 1860.