https://mungo.co/blog/breaking-ground-open-phase-2-of-the-mungo-mill/ Creatively Woven Fabric Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:02:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://mungo.co/blog/breaking-ground-open-phase-2-of-the-mungo-mill/#comment-671417 Sat, 13 Nov 2021 19:59:27 +0000 https://www.mungo.co.za/?p=242025#comment-671417 Bravo you guys
For the grit

]]> https://mungo.co/blog/breaking-ground-open-phase-2-of-the-mungo-mill/#comment-671416 Thu, 11 Nov 2021 08:53:25 +0000 https://www.mungo.co.za/?p=242025#comment-671416 “What are we going to do? We can sink, we can swim, I know what I want to do, I want to push through, build Phase 2. How about you?”
It’s so ‘Cat In The Hat’, a matter of fact…I love that!!
Well done for holding on, Holding’s
Mungo is a MUSE, something even the moon is in awe of.

]]> https://mungo.co/blog/breaking-ground-open-phase-2-of-the-mungo-mill/#comment-671415 Sat, 06 Nov 2021 09:05:24 +0000 https://www.mungo.co.za/?p=242025#comment-671415 That is just how big crafts based operations work! Big dreams the tenacity of a tiger and the patience of the ocean! Plus the heartwarming human side to it and the obvious love and respect that your families exemplify.
It brought tears to my eyes to read it, as I remember being starry-eyed and in Plett myself way back in 1983. We came to visit Janet and Stuart to sound out their ideas, Stuart was still firing the old gas and wood-fired kiln, the pottery had grown a little and the boat had too! Plett was still a village, growing fast but still a village, Nature’s valley was the Outer Hebrides by comparison. I am a dyed in the wool maker by inclination and the Holdings were ‘my people’ doing it old school, hippie whatever but what a dream! Our life decisions revolved around family too, and the Cape seemed just so far away from that and the economics of it seemed flimsy and we never made the move. Oh sure we came on by over the years and changes in life and economics family etc meant that in recent years I have come past guiding foreign guests to the smartest and most popular coastal town in the Cape or maybe the world! So big ups to you all for staying the course! Dax, I remember you as a dark-haired, dark-eyed kid of ten or 12, mysterious and independent. Tessa was a dear little girl with blonde curly hair and very engaged with books and animals? Am I right? Janet, I remember your charming humour and totally serene way of dealing with the multitudes of happenings that seemed to find their way to your front door! My dear friend Gavin Bell regarded his time with you as one of the most creative and rewarding ones that tipped him out of institutions of ‘higher learning’ into the reality of being a full-time craftsman, He never looked back!
So here you all are! Millions of stars have watched Mungo grow and prosper, bean counters notwithstanding, it is the human links that count after all. Penny and I shall certainly make our way back down to Plett to see the expanded mill and stores!

]]> https://mungo.co/blog/breaking-ground-open-phase-2-of-the-mungo-mill/#comment-671414 Fri, 05 Nov 2021 15:19:07 +0000 https://www.mungo.co.za/?p=242025#comment-671414 Congratulations! May you go from strength to strength. Your products are wonderful and can be found in my bedroom, kitchen and bathroom.

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