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Caterpillars and Cocoons: June 2013
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Ramblings of a dyer, spinner, weaver and silkworm fanatic. Saturday, 15 June 2013. Last Friday I had the pleasure of teaching two workshops at the Contemporary Craft Fair at Bovey Tracey. They are only two hours so one can't expect to achieve a lot but what a wonderful set of students! The first was 3D weaving - those amongst you who are weavers will understand that this is a concept that has limitless potential but I confined myself to two options. Willow branch in progress. The star of the show! Anna, ...
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Caterpillars and Cocoons: August 2013
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Ramblings of a dyer, spinner, weaver and silkworm fanatic. Friday, 16 August 2013. It's been a busy few months, with a talk on silkworms for the London Guild, a Natural Dye Workshop for Tawe Guild and a week teaching Designer Spinning at the Association Summer School, held this year in Carmarthen. I am extremely proud of Ineke, Jane W, Joanna, Carolyn, Sue, Jane S, Helen, Carol, Christine and Hilary and I hope they are proud of themselves! Below are images of their work:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Caterpillars and Cocoons: May 2012
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Ramblings of a dyer, spinner, weaver and silkworm fanatic. Sunday, 6 May 2012. Silkworms, bananas and excitement! It seems that though my intention is always to update the blog at least once a week, that my default setting is once a month! Since my last post I have taught a workshop and rashly decided to put my faith in the Garcia vats - not taking with me a failsafe traditional Spectralite vat (when people are paying, they want a successful indigo vat! And we will be starting to run courses there in the...
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Caterpillars and Cocoons: April 2012
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Ramblings of a dyer, spinner, weaver and silkworm fanatic. Tuesday, 3 April 2012. Quick organic indigo vats. Well, the banana vat pictures are finally downloaded, along with the henna vat that I made this afternoon. After blogging, I shall go and make the iron vat and hope to spend some merry hours doing some printing with it tomorrow. These are the mashed bananas with one of the skins to show how black they had become - I was surprised the bananas were still edible! The first dip in the vat, 10 minutes ...
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Caterpillars and Cocoons: A Busy Week...
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Ramblings of a dyer, spinner, weaver and silkworm fanatic. Saturday, 15 June 2013. Last Friday I had the pleasure of teaching two workshops at the Contemporary Craft Fair at Bovey Tracey. They are only two hours so one can't expect to achieve a lot but what a wonderful set of students! The first was 3D weaving - those amongst you who are weavers will understand that this is a concept that has limitless potential but I confined myself to two options. Willow branch in progress. The star of the show! Anna, ...
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Caterpillars and Cocoons: I should have done it yesterday...
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Ramblings of a dyer, spinner, weaver and silkworm fanatic. Friday, 28 March 2014. I should have done it yesterday. I am thinking of starting a new blog with the title of this post as its name! I seem to have been chasing deadlines for months now but have finally, I hope, got to a point where I can reach the next 4 - or is it 5 - with a degree of equinamity. But it goes when the dyed fibres are washed. I've washed a huge amount of fleece that somehow seems to have appeared in the workroom but before I get...
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Caterpillars and Cocoons: Time to catch up!
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Ramblings of a dyer, spinner, weaver and silkworm fanatic. Sunday, 3 August 2014. Time to catch up! Once again I seem to have been far too busy to post anything and I've been fiddling around with the layout of the blog. Still not got it right! May was busy with lots of dyeing and the best way to show you is to post some photos. Who says natural dyes are boring? A spinner always needs fibres and I have my silkworms but now I have some sheep! Well, Nick Viney, at http/ :www.leewood.co.uk. I spent it at Cha...
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Caterpillars and Cocoons: March 2014
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Ramblings of a dyer, spinner, weaver and silkworm fanatic. Friday, 28 March 2014. I should have done it yesterday. I am thinking of starting a new blog with the title of this post as its name! I seem to have been chasing deadlines for months now but have finally, I hope, got to a point where I can reach the next 4 - or is it 5 - with a degree of equinamity. But it goes when the dyed fibres are washed. I've washed a huge amount of fleece that somehow seems to have appeared in the workroom but before I get...
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Caterpillars and Cocoons: Anne Field
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Ramblings of a dyer, spinner, weaver and silkworm fanatic. Wednesday, 29 May 2013. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Links to sites I enjoy. Http:/ www.isend2011.com. Http:/ www.maristowwalledgardens.co.uk. Http:/ groups.yahoo.com/group/SustainableNaturalDyePractice/. Http:/ www.giselledesigns.co.uk. Http:/ www.rainingsideways.co.uk. Http:/ www.theoratorydartmoor.co.uk. Http:/ www.dyeverse.blogspot.com. Http:/ www.Moo.com. Http:/ www.backstrapweaving.blogspot.com. Http:/ www.jarbon.com. These are photo...
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Caterpillars and Cocoons: May 2013
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Ramblings of a dyer, spinner, weaver and silkworm fanatic. Wednesday, 29 May 2013. Monday, 27 May 2013. I realise of course that the end of the May is hardly an appropriate time to wish people a HNY, but it seems that for some reason I haven't posted here this year! I have been busy with lots of things, including working at the wonderful Leewood, www.leewood.co.uk. Teaching spinning, weaving and dyeing. The course dates are on the website under Textile Diary, but do check with me about the costs. Highlig...
