Christine Fisher-Lathwell – Getting creative

If they had a new line in of something that had to be displayed, and sometimes they would get art work or posters and various things that belonged to the new line of things, so those would have to be displayed.

Yes, so if it was a new particular maker who wanted everything displayed, I’m trying to think of the name of it. Used to sell wool. It was children’s clothes. Viyella baby wear was made of wool and cotton and so Viyella would often send through advertising material.

Lots of it was great fun the advertising material. You know to have to make it up ‘cos it was made of cardboard put together. But sometimes I knew or when I came back, I knew that they wanted a particular line but they didn’t have any advertising for it so I’d make something.

Of course, it wasn’t in the days of the … days when you could print something from the internet, but we had an Artist upstairs called Deann and she hand did all the notices for Packs for the tickets and everything.

An amazing job she made, so I would get her to make me a big Viyella print out and then do maybe a picture of children or little girls in dresses or whatever was appropriate from the Viyella advertising, so she would do that.