Rag rugs, the kind Grandma used to make from worn-out sheets and bits of cloth, may seem like relics from a bygone era, but ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bodgy, broddy, clippy, clooty, hooky, proggy, proddy, peggy, stobby, tabby — in the north of England, these are ...