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The Woman Who Covered a House

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Last month we told you about a special event whereby installation artist Alice Francis would be attempting to cover an entire Galloway Cottage as part of the country’s premier open studios arts and crafts event – the Spring Fling. The extraordinary feat proved to be a huge success, with the specially made loose covers fitting snugly around the contours of the building, including its three large chimneys

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Alice even went to the lengths of covering herself in the same floral fabric as her cottage covers. She wore a suit made from the Plumbs’ Rose & Scroll fabric, standing out from the crowd and merging into her latest arts piece.

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Helping to cover an entire building was a great challenge for us and to have achieved it with such success proves our motto to be true, that Plumbs really can cover almost anything! It has been a true delight to work with Alice on this project and we wish her every success in her future ventures.

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