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Newcastle small trader Pappa Sven's offer to make face masks boosts its fabric sales

By Penelope Green
May 28 2020 - 9:00am
Living in a material world: Pappa Sven owner Libby Helinski with some of the Marimekko fabric which she has used to make face masks and caps for medical staff to use during the coronavirus period. Picture: Marina Neil.
Living in a material world: Pappa Sven owner Libby Helinski with some of the Marimekko fabric which she has used to make face masks and caps for medical staff to use during the coronavirus period. Picture: Marina Neil.

WHEN Libby Helinski closed her Nordic-inspired, Cooks Hill store Pappa Sven on March 16, she was fearful.

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