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Handmade Living Article
Handmade Living article. If you fancy reading a little more about our Fleece to Felt weeks have a look at this article, which was in last months Handmade Living magazine.
Felt-making with pony -how we did it
I thought it might be quite handy to have a few instructions in case anyone wants to try this method at home! Part of the finished wall hanging! If you have watched the short film below, it gives you some idea of how we did it. We started by washing a dyeing local fleece. [...]
Posted in Craft - home & abroad
Also tagged Cheviot fleece, dyed, dyeing, fleece, hand dyed, Indigo, Madder, mongolian, natural dyes, needle felting, over dyed, Scotland, Shetland wool, wool
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Growing Things!
At last we have our Polytunnel and it’s going up. It is amazing how many parts it came in. Luckily Alex neatly laid them all out in the barn and has systematically put it all together, adding his own little bits and bobs here and there. Before the skin was on Our soil has only [...]
Posted in What's going on at the woods
Also tagged dye garden, dye seeds, dyeing, heather, Highland, Indigo, Ladies Bedstraw, Ladies Mantle, Madder, making a dye garden, Marigold, polytunnel, Woad
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Cannich Craft Day
We are having a traditional craft day on Sunday June 10th in Cannich this summer. We (the Strathglass community hall committee) are gathering local crafts people together to demonstrate and teach their crafts. The idea is to showcase as many traditional crafts as possible, to give people (particularly the young) a chance to just have a [...]
Posted in Craft - home & abroad
Also tagged Cannich, craft day, felt makers, Felting, making felt mongolian style, spinners, traditional craft, weavers
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