11 SEPTEMBER 2024
Freeman Kindra Faulks (Kitty) gained her Freedom of the City earlier this year and has decided to mark it by not only joining the annual sheepdrive on the 29th September, but by also doing so in costume for the Stationers’ Foundation.
Please join her in supporting the Foundation’s efforts by donating to her fundraiser https://www.justgiving.com/page/kitty or sending a payment directly to the banking details attached and the reference ‘[your name] sheep’.
Strangely enough, there is a link between sheep and her company Lewis Masonic! The founder was the son of James Hogg, the Scottish poet known as the Ettrick Shepherd and a freemason of Kilwinning No.2, serving as their Poet-Laureate after Robert Burns. When she isn’t running Lewis Masonic alongside Martin, her husband, she provides historical characters to heritage sites. So, in the name of charity she will be combining the two and attending the sheepdrive in 18th century dress!
She’s also produced a limited edition print called ‘The Ettrick Shepherd and the Shepherdess’. Produced on high-quality, textured Italian paper, each has been hand-printed in the workshop by Kitty with a stylised silhouette of an eighteenth-century genteel shepherdess, in a similar style to what she will be wearing on the day. The background features an eighteenth-century border and a short verse from The Queen's Wake by James Hogg.
Please join her in supporting the Foundation’s efforts by donating to her fundraiser https://www.justgiving.com/page/kitty or sending a payment directly to the banking details attached and the reference ‘[your name] sheep’.
Donations above £50 will get a Stationer t-shirt and a print just email communications@stationers.org with your address.