Here’s a tiny wedding to look at, from our graphic novel This Slavery. You can see Scarlett drawing, colouring, shading and lighting every cobble stone - and the expressions on the people’s tiny faces that tell you it’s not a happy day for them…

Macclesfield Silk Museum is FULL of surprises!

Here are all the bits that were not silk - Content Warning for taxidermy and human remains, we were not kidding about the surprises…

Join us on a field trip to a scene from This Slavery graphic novel. It turns out if you draw first and visit later, you get lots of surprises (including a mistake a whole quarter of a mile long)

this is a health and safety broadcast for artists and illustrators:

Have you ever thought about where silk comes from?

Come round Macclesfield Silk Museum with us for a rapid review: from wiggly worm to the president of Ghana…

In November, @commonerschoir.bsky.social sang their new song This Slavery in Queen Street Mill textile museum as part of Trouble At Mill - there was barely a dry eye in the house

Happy New Year!

2025 was the year This Slavery came out, and here is a glimpse of the launch event Trouble At Mill. There are more, longer films at RickardSisters.com

Happy Birthday Aunt Jane!

Here’s that time we went for a nosy round her house, it’s a great day out

Here we are researching and immersing ourselves in cotton weaving life, for the making of This Slavery graphic novel

We’re at Queen Street Mill Textile Museum in Burnley, where we went on to hold the launch event when the book was made

**this video contains spoilers** but tbf this story was first published 100 years ago

Here’s an introduction to This Slavery graphic novel’s stoic and steadfast sister

(and a terrified dog)

What would you like for dinner? An overbearing, aggressive husband, judgy guests and an apologetic mother? Mmmhm delicious

This dinner party is from our graphic novel This Slavery. Scarlett takes about 1 day to draw a page like this, working from very rough paper roughs you can see at the start

Who knew one page could contain quite so much? Zooming in on the overhead spreads in This Slavery graphic novel is full of surprises…

“130 steep and slippery steps in confined spaces” - you can’t put us off exploring that easily

This is the mysteriously named Giant’s Cave under the Camera Obscura overlooking the best bridge in Britain

And from This Slavery (2025) - a marriage proposal that begins the unravelling of Rachel & Hester Martin. This is a time-lapse of its creation using Adobe Fresco.