We are selling cloth face coverings... ... in response to COVID 19 and the Government's & World Health Organisation's recommendations to wear face-coverings (masks) in confined public spaces. They are double-layer (three layers in Wales!) cotton, professionally tailored and with a 75pence donation to charity with each mask sold Help us raise £750 in Gatwick Detainee Welfare Group's 25th birthday year. £250 by selling 333 Refugee Tales masks and £500 sponsoring our Picking, Packing & Posting them (Find our Just Giving page: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/greg-clough) Why did we add saffron to our stitch? Like the best saffron, our resident tailor was born in the Khorasan province of Iran. He strives to create beauty whether by stitching, tailoring, embroidering, repairing, restoring or altering. As with the spice, the value in his work derives both from his inherent talent and his time taken labouring by hand. Whilst training, at the Royal School of Needlework, one of our tailor's Certificate pieces of silk shading embroidery inspired our company's name change. The English word, saffron, is believed to derive from the Persian word zarparan meaning 'gold string'. The beautiful delicate lilac-coloured crocus flowers bloom overnight, just once per year, in the southern region of the Khorasan province in Iran. Saffron is the world's most valuable spice because of its unique properties and all the hand labour which goes into producing it. These properties of saffron underpin the ethos of our company.