by The Loom Shed - Louise | Sep 7, 2021 | News from The Shed
Our first day back to ‘school’ after our holiday was a workshop on Flax Spinning with Amanda Hannaford, which felt like a real treat to witness. Amanda covered the whole process from scutching and hackling the plant, even creating a distaff. It felt like an ancient...
by The Loom Shed - Louise | Aug 3, 2021 | The Loom Shed in Conversation
Knitter Francesca Hughes joined up to talk about all things knitting ahead of her Lace Knitting Workshop – A Covid rearrangement means a new date of 5th February. We hope that you can join us.
by The Loom Shed - Louise | Jul 27, 2021 | News from The Shed
On Saturday 24th July we finally got to put our dye sink, buckets and drying racks to good use, at our first natural dye workshop with Jane Deane. We were introduced to the difference between dyes that will work and hold fast without chemical assistance (we used...
by The Loom Shed - Louise | Jul 5, 2021 | News from The Shed
We hosted our first Natural Dye Symposium on the 26th June and what a treat it was! We were joined by Aviva Leigh, Isabella Whitworth, Luisa Uribe and Susan Dye who all shared their passion and research into different areas of this subject. I don’t know about...
