Colourful Cryséde clothes and accessories reappear in many of Harold Harvey's paintings. His wife's sister managed the first Cryséde Silks retail shop in Newlyn, and Gertrude clearly owned some very stylish Cryséde scarves. This is Titbits (1929, Bowerman Charitable Trust). Penlee House has a good Cryséde display and although the Harold Harvey exhibition closes this week,  the newly updated monograph is available.

Cryséde Silks provided much-needed employment for many local women in West Cornwall during the difficult 1920s and 1930s. They worked as dressmakers and shop assistants and, when required, as models. Here a group wears garments in different fabric designs with more in the background in the company's Island Works St Ives (c1927, Royal Cornwall Museum collection). Second left is Phyllis Hicks, later manageress of the St Ives shop, who was married to Tom Firth, chief dyer.

Alec Walker was encouraged by Raoul Dufy whom he met in France and whose influence can be see in this Cryséde dress silk, 'Cornish Farm' (1930), a design adapted from one Walker's own painting. As the V&A says on its website, the colours of many Cryséde fabrics are similar to those used by the Fauves, and "their loose, painterly style and subject matter were a vibrant contrast to the discreet floral dress fabrics typical of the time".

'Cornish Farm' dress fabric des Alec Walker (1930, V&A)

This week on the Post we have Cryséde, the short-lived but influential textile company founded in 1920 by silk manufacturer and artist Alec Walker (1889-1964) in Newlyn, Cornwall. Walker produced fresh, bright designs on silk fabric using the woodblock hand-printing process, as above in the Cryséde Island works in St Ives in the 1930s. Examples of original designs, samples, and garments can be seen in the Cryséde exhibition now on at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro.

If you are lucky you can find damsons in a local market or on a friend's prolific tree, but sadly they are not as popular as they once were. Yet they make a wonderful jam which sets easily, and are excellent in crumbles. Grace Ayson and Hughie O'Donoghue designed the 'Damson Tree' window (2018) which is in the cloisters in Canterbury Cathedral. It commemorates Richard Oldfield who made damson jam each year using fruit from the tree in his garden. There is also a Damson Tree trial panel in the Stained Glass Museum.

Many readers will remember having their daily dose of vitamin C in rosehip syrup when they were children. During WWII rosehips were a vital source of vitamins, and there was a huge drive to encourage volunteers such as Scouts and Women's Institute members to gather them from hedgerows. All that goodness is still there, but mostly unused. This is Still Life of Daisies and Rose Hips in a Vase with a Book (1904, Arlington Court) by Rosalie Chichester (1865-1949).

Crab apple trees are perfect for small gardens yet they are now highly underrated, so it is often a matter of having to forage for the fruit. It can be made into a classic jelly with a very beautiful colour; Florence White gives a recipe in Good Things in England. This is Apples and Two Pears (2018) by Emily Patrick.