Advertising clocks have been made in a wide range of materials and styles. They are as diverse as the numerous products and services they were designed to promote. As the designer is a tea totter, she decided to hook a clock sign from the Café Paris. Parisian cafés serve as a center of social and culinary life in Paris. They have been around since the 17th century, and serve as the meeting place, neighborhood hub, conversation matrix, rendez-vous spot, and networking source, a place to relax or to refuel - the social and political pulse of the city. Parisian cafés show the Parisian way of sitting undisturbed for a couple of hours, watching things happening and people going by. Loris hooked this piece in honor of her father who was a clock designer and also a sign artist. Biography Loris Blandford began her rug hooking adventures in 2004 shortly after getting into the business of raising alpacas. She incorporates alpaca fibres in her pieces. She is the proud owner of the Wool Farm where she is in the dye pots everyday creating fabulous wools, making patterns and working on anything rug hooking related.