Original Article on The New York Times

Marmalade is Anglophilia in a pot: fussy, traditional and deliciously tooth-rotting. The word itself sounds like a mysterious ribbon of malaise and bonkers. In addition to bringing a blob of cheer to rainy weekday mornings, it recalls wartime London and lost toy bears, hallucinogens and manga. It is the definition of bittersweet: comforting, but with a sharp rind edge and a dark aftertaste. Watch Fry and Laurie put the marm in marmalade in a famous 1992 sketch. In 2002, Rebecca Aird and Peter Thwaites set out to design and produce fabrics and wallpapers that were 100 percent British. The result is the award-winning company Rapture and Wright. Their designs are hand-printed in their Gloucestershire studio, employing traditional techniques on...(read more)