Kit Caless

0:19Hi okay.

0:22So this is what we're calling it spoons carpet's an appreciation in 10 minutes and we're going to currently ask what is spoons it's not that it's not that it's this.

0:43This is a weather spoons and I'm sure everybody in here has been to weather spoons and if you haven't well you're probably of a higher class than me but have a look a little bit closer into what we're talking about here.

0:58This is a weather spoon carpet not photographed by me hence the pixelation.

1:06So we go back to the typical weather spoon scene old man up a pip probably Curry Thursday he's got his bag he's on somewhere else couple in the background genot tonics arguing Mom and Dad sort of 6540 and then the bar somewhere behind there brightly lit U we all know about weather spoons this on the other hand is a Weatherspoon carpet this is the den me Queen in water louville and actually you see my shoes same shoes so you can see that's actually me the Demi Queen the the little bus there it's called the Demi queen that was the first public transport bus in the history of the country and they've weaved it into a carpet and put a boat in a tree this is the Sir Henry newbolt in bston Sir Henry newbolt was a local poet to bston who if you know your second world first world war poetry from your gcsec class did a poem about first of of War which ends up with play up play up play the game which I kind of refashioned as drink up drink up drink your pints I kind of see this as kind of quashed Happy eater kind of like the happy eater is basically dead was taken over by little chef and weather spoons has become kind of new Happ eater and this is its graveyard this is the golden Line in New Market the place which takes the most amount of cash on a Saturday from the winnings at the races little bit constructivist a little bit Kandinsky maybe and this.

2:59This is the Smithy fold in glossip and I've got no explanation for that.

3:08So weather spoons carpets was a Blog on Tumblr which I started last year.

3:15And it was inspired by this book by Will Wilds called the way in explains itself I was reading this book in a pub in can spr the weather Springs Westgate in trying to get a train back to London and the main protagonist in the book visits hotels around the C around the country they're all the same hotel and he loves the fact they're the same hotel and he discovers that one day all the artwork he sees in this hotel all the Bland artwork all makes one massive canvas and once he's discovered that the secret of the hotel unlocks itself and dystopian disgusting things happen and I finished this book when I was in the weather spoons and I shut it and my phone had ran out of battery I had nothing better to do than to look at the flooor and I thought does weather spoons have one giant tapestry and if I find out if that's the case do I unlock the Demonic secrets of weather spoons well no so this is the floor of the Westgate in in Canterbury in Kent fairly standard sort of floral kind of Flur leish Lou 160 maybe kind of vaguely whatever you want to call it pattern and this is the backers courts in Hackney which is my local so I went from the Westgate car Westgate in to this backx court and took a photo of that bet shoes on for a start. And then.

4:46I started collecting the pictures and then I opened it up made a tumbler went on Twitter said people send me your local weather spoons carpet photo and and I know let's have a look at this if we can oh no yeah here we go there's no internet I don't think we planned this bit did we can we get out of here no that oh there we go ah we didn't rehearse this B we did not okay right we're good right.

5:28So what what you would have seen is an archive of all of the weather spon carpets up and down the land sent to me by the venerable venerable folk of Britain and after a while I thought you know make some money out of it so what happens next which isn't happening either is this sping carpets and appreciate in the book contains words pictures and M shoot so I basically went around the country and visited all my favorite weather spoons carpets and took photos of them with my feet in them.

6:16This is the Gary Cooper in Dunstable little bit kind of fiery a little bit like hols Mars from the planet site this is the four candles look at God Jesus top man though you can't go wrong this is the four candles in Oxford named after Ronnie Barker CU he lived down the road U named after the sketch the four candles to Ronnie sketch there's a bit upstairs we call the Corbit Lounge it's not as good this is the Narrows in Abington. And this guy is Colin he he was someone sent me a load of pictures from Ox Sher and he's a taxi driver so I met him and he drove around Roxford sh and we went into those pubs and took photos of his feet pretty amazing carpet didn't even charge me anything so big up Colin this is the Benjamin Huntsman in Sheffield where.

7:13I was taking photos and two guys came up to me and said are you the guy that runs the weather swing's carpet blog and I'm there with a massive camera taking photos on my feet like this. And I was like yeah you're a legine mate where we going with that. And so they wanted to be in a photo and their second shoes are rubbish this.

7:38This is the kns Templar in Hartford the kns Templar they were like these guys that went on the piss a lot a bunch of lads really he went to the Crusades killed some people came back one of them stole a goat from the queen and got sentenced to death and was hanged at the point where the weather Springs Pub is and this is I kind of feel like the double helix of his genetic pattern with a beautiful rip in the middle and this is my favorite one slightly seriously this is the Queen's head of mby M's next mining town in 1923 the had of cery disaster with 27 men died only one body was recovered man of a guy only known as Renren Shaw and the day this building opens which weather sping is in now was the day that that Cy disaster happened and then later on in the ' 80s huge mining strikes 700 RI police 6,000 miners big kind of Battle of capital versus working versus labor all that sort of stuff and then the weather Spoons oped the year after the pub the mine finally closed and they did this and you can see the pit shafts coming out here these these sort of hexagons with the circles in the middle is the molecular structure of coal this big sort of thing above my feet is a fossil that you find before you find coal and you see the pit pony head upside down in the middle very sensitive and that's a dog yeah that was just for the r going to rapidly go through this.

9:24This is where they make them in Wilton in Salsbury that's a massive you see how big that is that's a loom called the Vander whe that's where they put the that's where they put that's all the thread and that is another one and that is a carpet being latexed and that is the carpet from the House of Lords being weaved at the time I was there. And that's another weave and that's the House of Lords done by Mickey and this is a video Read thank you very much