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A little bit of what we do, a little bit of what we like // www.francli.co.uk // [email protected]

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STUDIO_

Bespoke Craft Apron: Chef

Brief:

To design and make bespoke aprons for 'Young Professional South West Chef of the Year', James Mason, at No.1 Rock Road Restaurant in Rock, Cornwall. The aprons were specifically commission for cooking demos at the Southwest Food Festival in Exeter. 

Materials

Navy canvas twill

Waxed side leather

British made cotton webbing

Pre-consumer waste Hypalon labels

Features:

Detachable neck tie

Detachable Sam Browne studs

Ergonomic cut

Embroidered restaurant logo

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STUDIO_

Bespoke Craft Apron: Chef

Brief:

To design and make bespoke aprons for 'Young Professional South West Chef of the Year', James Mason, at No.1 Rock Road Restaurant in Rock, Cornwall. The aprons were specifically commission for cooking demos at the Southwest Food Festival in Exeter. 

Materials

Navy canvas twill

Waxed side leather

British made cotton webbing

Pre-consumer waste Hypalon labels

Features:

Detachable neck tie

Detachable Sam Browne studs

Ergonomic cut

Embroidered restaurant logo

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NEWS_

Francli Craftwear Display Stand

We are very lucky to be a part of an amazing community of artists and makers here in Falmouth. It's a creative and supportive network where skill swapping and knowledge sharing is one of the most important resources. So when we needed a simple yet beautiful display stand, we knew exactly who to call over . . . .

Designer / Maker:

Felix McCormack

Website: http://felixmccormack.co.uk/ Contact: http://felixmccormack.co.uk/

Brief: 

We needed a display stand for events, markets, pop-up shop and studio storage. Due to the variety in both where we would be exhibiting and our range of products, the stand needed to be interchangeable and portable.

Solution:

A 360 degree, 2 metre x 3 metre modular stand with multiple combinations.

Easy to set up, take down and travel with, it is highly adaptable for one-off day events or month long pop-up exhibitions.

It is the perfect minimal background to our range of outdoor and craft wares, with moveable pegs and shelving depending on the collection we would like to showcase. It can also store stock inside when the shelving is slotted in-between the box pieces.

The choice of quality materials, combined with an un-intrusive and timeless aesthetic, means that we will be able to use the stand for many years to come.

Materials:

Douglas fir and plywood.

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I've been photographing craftsmen around Los Angeles as a way to celebrate the hand made process and reconnect with a more authentic, fly-on-the-wall approach to photography. First a metalworker in Venice, then a carpenter and machinist in Downtown LA. http://www.deanbradshaw.com/#/craft

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This is a short documentary movie that shows the whole process of how John Neeman Tools are being hand crafted.

"It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery methods continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God." Mahathma Ghandi

Music by Foreign Fields - "Names and Races". 

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MUSIC_

Here are a selection of tracks that are keeping us going through the cold winter months in our Cornish studio. Enjoy!

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MUSIC_

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Nature Ladies 

The experience of being in the cold outdoors. Professional freeride skier Ane Enderud and Anki Grøthe together on adventure.  http://www.ankigrothe.com/

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Sell your pursuit not your product - Collyn Ahart.

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Craving a good mountain hike

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Synopsis

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Nature is a powerful source of inspiration. Nature allows us the opportunity to discover. Nature offers us a place to have adventures, to search out the beautiful things in life that money can’t buy and that the internet cannot offer us. We are all living different lives with different opportunities to experience the outdoors. Some of us are fortunate enough to be surrounded by forests, mountains and wildlife. Others have to search different landscapes to find nature like the home, the office and the city. If we look hard enough, in our everyday lives we can find ourselves surrounded by nature; from the chairs we sit on to the boards we ride.  Søke presents this idea through the forms and shapes that wood can make. Wood can be seen in such a way that, through the simple shape of a circle, to its arrangement in a pile, it can resemble natural and man made structures. But it’s the one constant that is present in all our landscapes. Søke is the observation on the search to find inspiration in nature. Søke is the Norwegian word for ‘search’.

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Pioneering fishnet recycling in Chile for sustainable skateboards and cleaner oceans.

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Lure of the Mountains is the first published biography of accomplished photographer, ornithologist, teacher and 1924 Everest expedition member Bentley Beetham (1886–1963) - See more at: http://www.v-publishing.co.uk/books/categories/biographies/lure-of-the-mountains.html#sthash.Y09PVbMm.dpuf

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SLOW IS FAST 

Absorbed in a life of professional surfing, Dan Malloy rarely had the chance to explore the world the way he wanted to. Although Malloy expressed his great appreciation for the opportunities presented to him through his career as a professional surfer, he said how the action sports industry is portrayed is false in a number of ways.

Fans tend to clutch to the idea that athletes are immersed in the environments of the far-off locations they visit around the world for competitions—that they’re living a very laid-back kind of life. Malloy said for him, it was the opposite. When he was informed of a good swell or had to travel to compete, “I’d get on a plane, surf, then go right back home.” The lifestyle was far from relaxed, jumping from one surf hot spot to another, rarely absorbing the culture of each place along the way. The industry seems to focus mainly on the promotion of athletes in the world of overdone advertising, depicted as almost super humans gracing the covers of glossy magazines.

“A lot of what portrays the surfing world is pure fiction,” he said.

http://www.actionhub.com/stories/trio-takes-slow-fast-approach-travel/

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Photos of three mountaineers hiking across Ben Nevis, the tallest point in the British Isles (4,406 ft.) in 1929. Found : http://tomboystyle.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/scene-grampian-mountains.html

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"Removing dams has proven to be an effective way to restore entire watershed ecosystems, revive wild and sustainable fisheries and associated jobs, protect coastal beaches and wetlands, improve water quality, and improve the lives of adjacent communities and native cultures." http://damnationfilm.com/

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Capturing our friend Paul testing our activity rucksck