Pantone Colours 2024 I love working with colour and how to produce the multitude of shades that can be made. I am terrible as a painter or an artist who works with […]
The heritage craft of turning wool, fleece, fibre into yarn.
Pantone Colours 2024 I love working with colour and how to produce the multitude of shades that can be made. I am terrible as a painter or an artist who works with […]
Sparto Retting I had collected about 400 grams of Sparto stalks, so I placed these into a large bucket of sea water. The stalks are quite long so I had to fold […]
SPARTO – WEAVERS/SPANISH BROOM Sparto (Sparta) Spartium junceum also called Spanish Broom or Weavers Broom is an almost forgotten textile plant that is native to Mediterranean countries. Spanish Broom was introduced to […]
The Nettle Dress Textile artist Allan Brown spends 7 years making a dress by hand, from locally foraged stinging nettles. Post Views: 577
Dragging Tin Thread Spinning Tin Thread Part 2The tin (Pewter) is dragged through a die to make a fine thread. Post Views: 971
Woolen Spinning I like to spin yarns using the Woolen spinning method. As I work in my studio – I record and stream videos of my work almost daily. I edit the […]
Processing Flax into Linen Yarn ORIGINAL FILE NAME: aa072397 FILE DATE: 07-23-97 EDIT DATE: 04-11-26 There are two general types of flax, one is grown for seeds, the other for its fiber. […]