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Spinning and Weaving Project – Part Two

The Finer Things, Things to Make and DoBy sara 6th October 2020

This is the second part of the weaving and spinning Project. (Part One is here). It’s time for the weaving. First of all there was the matter of winding and wrestling over 7m of warp onto the loom. This is a vintage Weavemaster table loom with a 14 dent reed 21″ wide. Using…

Spinning and Weaving Project – Part One

Things to Make and DoBy sara 30th August 2020

Hand spinning and weaving is about as labour intensive as it gets. So this is the ‘Project’: to take raw fleece, process and spin the fibre. Weave that fibre into a length of cloth. And finally to make a wearable garment from that cloth. There was a similar project a year or two ago, to…