Larkings fat quarters 26 pieces

Moda Janet Clare. DID YOU KNOW THAT THE RIVER THAMES is tidal through London? The muddy foreshore that is revealed at low tide is home to long-lost buried treasure, medieval tiles, glass bottles, coins, clay pipes and hundreds of ceramic chips from long-broken tea sets. The searching for these fragments is called intertidal archaeology, but we have a much more romantic name for it: ‘larking’. You can ‘lark’ anywhere and I do! In my garden, on dog walks, at the beach and over the years, my family and I have collected hundreds of tiny pieces of China from broken tea sets, putting them for safe keeping in our pockets until we get them home to be washed and admired. I just love the patterns, colours and the glimpse into past lives these larked, once mundane treasures offer. What stories they could tell us!