OK, so we all know faeries like to dwell in ancient hollow hills, but these amazing man-made dwellings may well entice them to move house. We’ve previously featured this ‘hobbit’ house built in Wales, but what about the Little Retreat in Northamptonshire – a little thatched cottage with interiors created with tree branches, pinecones and leaves. Or Jon Brook’s colourful and organic New Hampshire home, or an Earth Lodge in Johannesburg, South Africa. Gnomes might like the Göreme Cave Village in Turkey (known locally as the Fairy Chimneys), or the House of Stone in Portugal. Finally, another real life Hobbit house was built to house the owner’s collection of Tolkein manuscripts, directly inspired by the descriptions in the books. …But never mind the Faeries, I’d quite like to live in these places myself!

(With thanks to Curious Places for originally featuring many of these places. Please visit this amazing blog for a feast of unusual, curious and downright bizarre architecture.)

OK, so we all know faeries like to dwell in ancient hollow hills, but these amazing man-made dwellings may well entice them to move house. We’ve previously featured this ‘hobbit’ house built in Wales, but what about the Little Retreat in Northamptonshire – a little thatched cottage with interiors created with tree branches, pinecones and leaves. Or Jon Brook’s colourful and organic New Hampshire home, or an Earth Lodge in Johannesburg, South Africa. Gnomes might like the Göreme Cave Village in Turkey (known locally as the Fairy Chimneys), or the House of Stone in Portugal. Finally, another real life Hobbit house was built to house the owner’s collection of Tolkein manuscripts, directly inspired by the descriptions in the books. …But never mind the Faeries, I’d quite like to live in these places myself!

(With thanks to Curious Places for originally featuring many of these places. Please visit this amazing blog for a feast of unusual, curious and downright bizarre architecture.)

Clothing is one of the challenges of man in the primitive era, efforts were made by man to create shelter for himself. Base on this fact, cloths were made from hides and skin of animal and leaves to meet the need. In our modern era, clothing is more of necessity than luxury. However, determining the significance of textile design to mankind, hence, this essay.

I’m sure you will have read at least one of Rose Fyleman’s charming fairy poems in the past. Coming very much from the Victorian and Edwardian viewpoint of childhood innocence, Rose’s fairies are kindly folk with just a hint of mischievousness. If you like your fairyland with a touch of whimsy, these poems can’t fail to enchant. The Rose Fyleman Fairy book collects together over 50 poems complete with delightful illustrations by Hilda T Miller. The original volume was published in 1923, but now Five Leaves Publications have reprinted a new edition in hardback, including 12 colour illustrations and numerous pen and ink drawings. It is a lovely edition, and the poems themselves are perfect for sharing with the little fairies in your life (or the not so little fairies!).

I’m sure you will have read at least one of Rose Fyleman’s charming fairy poems in the past. Coming very much from the Victorian and Edwardian viewpoint of childhood innocence, Rose’s fairies are kindly folk with just a hint of mischievousness. If you like your fairyland with a touch of whimsy, these poems can’t fail to enchant. The Rose Fyleman Fairy book collects together over 50 poems complete with delightful illustrations by Hilda T Miller. The original volume was published in 1923, but now Five Leaves Publications have reprinted a new edition in hardback, including 12 colour illustrations and numerous pen and ink drawings. It is a lovely edition, and the poems themselves are perfect for sharing with the little fairies in your life (or the not so little fairies!).