Textile Production

This year will see a slight change in our fabric production as we have chosen to natural dye the thread before being handwoven into fabric. This process takes a little more time than dyeing the finished fabric, but will provide a more even and fast colour.

The weather here in Kathmandu is fine and sunny with daytime temperatures reaching 23 degrees C, but with nighttime lows of 1 degree C.
Load shedding gives the city 9 hours a day without electricity and this is likely to increase to a possible 16 hours a day without power. Choosing to use handwoven fabric is a wise choice as only electrical lighting is effected by the power cuts. This problem can easily be overcome by the use of battery power. Tailoring factories have to rely on diesel generators to run their machines.

I will upload further news as we make continue to make progress with this year's production and look forward opening our online store for retail on the 8th March.

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2010 COLLECTION

We regret to announce that sorazora will be unable to process any orders from January 9th until March 9th. We apologise for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.


It is that time of year again when we will be heading to the warmth of the Himalayas to see through production of our designs. Kathmandu Valley offers impressive views of the Himalayas, but provides plenty of warm sunny days at this time of year. The tempurature difference between night and day is quite considerable and the lack of central heating should make for cold evenings, but overall it should provide a respite from the cold snap we are currently experiencing here in the UK.


We look forward to resuming business as usual after March the 9th and would once again like to wish everyone a happy and prosperous new year.

SEASON'S GREETINGS

Merry Christmas And A Happy New Year.

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CHRISTMAS MARKETS

We are back from our visit to various European Xmas markets and able to process orders as per usual. We apologise for our week's absence and hope it hasn't caused any inconvenience.

The first Market we visited was in Arhus (Denmark) followed by Hamburg and then Amsterdam. Hamburg's Christmas market was by far the largest and most interesting. The market place in front of the old town hall was filled with elaborate stalls selling a wide range of crafts, traditional German food and hot wine. 

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Winter Vacation 14th Dec. to 18th Dec.

Just to let you know that we will be unable to process any orders made between the 14th of December and the 18th of December. We will be out of the UK for that week as we are visiting Christmas markets in Denmark, Germany and The Netherlands.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your understanding.

natural clothing, bags, and so on...

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CRAFT FAIRS 2010

Over the weekend we visited several craft fairs within the London area with a view to weekend trading from March/April 2010. The particular craft fairs that interest us are Greenwich, Old Spitalfields and Covent Garden's Jubilee Market. Nothing has been decided yet and we will confirm our plans nearer the time. We look forward to having a presence on a fairly regular level, as well as the occasional music festival during the summer season.

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NATURAL DYEING WITH LILY POLLEN

A current experiment with natural dyes involves using lily pollen. I have tried with a very small quantity of pollen used to colour hemp wool. The final colour was indeed a bright yellow, but the colour was fairly uneven. I am not sure if this uneven colour was the result of not using enough pollen for the amount of hemp wool or just the nature of this dyestuff. I will experiment again in the near future with a larger amount of pollen. Collecting the pollen from lilies is rather time consuming so I imagine the next experiment will also be on either a small garment (i.e. silk shawl) or hemp wool.