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I'm sitting in a Pub in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, waiting for another train. It's Friday afternoon, I have a Pint in hand and enjoying the banter with some retired coal miners, a jovial lightheartedness that says we're all looking forward to the weekend. As I sit at my small copper topped table with open laptop (this is one of the few remaining places where you feel like a dork for using one), I'm torn between wanting to really engage like a local yet realising I should show some reserv

The dark arts of waxed cotton begins with the transformation of a cotton fabric when the wax is applied. When you send your jacket for a rewax it's an entirely different process to how the fabric is waxed in the first instance. Your jacket is literally 'sponged' from a tub of hot wax. However, when the fabric is originally 'finished' at the mill, what looks like a cattle trough (well the ones I've seen) drips wax onto the fabric as it passes under the trough from roller to roller. Now I'm a fa