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Doggerland was a submerged landmass,

beneath the waves of the southern North

Sea; it connected Britain to continental

Europe, until it sunk in around 5000

BCE. You could have walked from the

east coast of England to mainland

Europe. It was a landscape of hills,

valleys, swamps and marshes, where

woolly mammoths roamed and the

people who lived here fashioned fishing

hooks from antlers, and axes from flint.

Julia Blackburn’s poetic search for this

long disappeared land is told through her

fascination with bones, shells and the

fossilised footsteps of early humans in an

estuary, alongside the scattered dents

made by rain falling thousands of years

ago. Beautiful. (Jonathan Cape)

Handmade linens crafted with

sustainable cotton and natural dyes

are Kasia Mijas-Galloway’s bread and

butter. The York-based designer

createsstrikingcushionsfromraw

linen (pictured, £30), aprons, bags,

pretty frayed napkins and more; all

made with zero waste and sustainable

livinginmind.TakeKasia’sgorgeous

dusky pink dye, for instance; it’s

made using waste avocado stones

fromalocalcafé.Cleverand

eye-catching.

nakeddye.com

MAKEROF

THE MONTH

Naked Dye is showing how elegant

Earth-friendly textiles can be

BOOK REVIEWS: EITHNE FARRY

A MAMMOTH TASK

Julia Blackburn collates treasures from an ancient, forgotten world inTime Song

Cecil stoneware
jug | £
Versatile enough for
anything from a single
stem to a clutch of
colourful tulips.
rowenandwren.co.uk

FRESH (^) | FEBRUARY THINGS