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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
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Ramblings of a dyer, spinner, weaver and silkworm fanatic. Sunday, 23 September 2012. I have surpassed my personal best this time with a four month absence from the blog. This not because life has been boring - far from it! And been helping with the organization for the textile programme for next year. I've written articles for future editions of The Journal ( http:/ www.thejournalforwsd.org.uk. There is a small Wensleydale flock enjoying the 30 acres and I am enjoying the fleece! Links to sites I enjoy.
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Caterpillars and Cocoons: September 2012
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Ramblings of a dyer, spinner, weaver and silkworm fanatic. Sunday, 23 September 2012. I have surpassed my personal best this time with a four month absence from the blog. This not because life has been boring - far from it! And been helping with the organization for the textile programme for next year. I've written articles for future editions of The Journal ( http:/ www.thejournalforwsd.org.uk. There is a small Wensleydale flock enjoying the 30 acres and I am enjoying the fleece! Links to sites I enjoy.
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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: 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: 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...
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Caterpillars and Cocoons: Happy New Year!
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Ramblings of a dyer, spinner, weaver and silkworm fanatic. 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. Highlights since I last blogged...
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The Journal for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers - Advertiser Classified Julie Hedges
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Subscribe online (UK Only). Subscribe online (European Union). Subscribe online (Rest of World). Send us your views. Classified rates and info. Display ads rates and info. Current Issue: Autumn 2016. Tapestry Weaving Workshops with Fiona Hutchison. In Edinburgh; small groups, individual tuition for beginners and advanced students. Website: www.fionahutchison.co.uk. Weaving Courses in Somerset with Janet Phillips. Author of Designing Woven Fabrics. Email: janetphillips@clara.co.uk. Or email (see below).
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Leewood | Isabella Whitworth
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Steam-fixed dyes for silk. Work in Natural Dyes. Probably more than natural and synthetic dyes, wax, resists, and history. Historical Dyeing days at Leewood in the Dartmoor National Park. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, when chemists devised the means to produce synthetic dyes, all textiles were dyed with natural materials such as plants, insects and shellfish. In discussion one day, they realised that no-one appeared to have studied possible variation occurring in the take-up of natural dyes...
