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Adjusting a spindle hook

Posted on February 3, 2021February 3, 2021 by Judy

When you get a new spindle or if your favourite spindle has been knocking about for a while you may need to bend the hook a tiny bit to optimize Read More …

Finger Weaving

Posted on March 6, 2019March 6, 2019 by Judy

Finger weaving is a technique used to create belts, sashes, straps, and other similar items through a non-loom braiding process. It is especially popular among the Québecois, Métis and North Read More …

Card Weaving

Posted on February 9, 2019March 15, 2019 by Judy

Card weaving (also called tablet weaving) is a very ancient technique for weaving bands. It was used in Iron Age Europe as well as by the Vikings to weave headers Read More …

Bandweaving

Posted on January 31, 2019October 30, 2019 by Judy

I’ve recently become fascinated with weaving narrow bands using a special band heddle. This technique uses supplementary warp threads to form the pattern by floating on top of or underneath Read More …

Spinning with a belt distaff

Posted on May 13, 2018May 17, 2018 by Judy

Last summer I taught myself to spin using a spindle and belt distaff. This method was used in Europe during the Middle Ages and can still be found in Eastern Read More …

The story of a rug

Posted on November 4, 2015February 27, 2017 by Judy

This rug began as wool straight off the sheep – white Scottish Blackface from Alberta, white North Country Cheviot from Ontario, black Canadian wool from the Canadian Cooperative Wool Growers Read More …

Dyeing with woad

Posted on September 24, 2014February 25, 2017 by Judy

Today I dyed with the woad I grew this summer. It had grown happily in a recycling bin, munched on by some cabbage butterfly caterpillars. To start I put a Read More …

A dye garden

Posted on June 10, 2014February 25, 2017 by Judy

Last year I planted seeds of woad, weld and dyer’s coreopsis but none of them germinated. I have no idea why. This year I decided to try again with last Read More …

Dogs and Cats

Posted on June 8, 2014February 25, 2017 by Judy

Over the winter I did a couple of custom spinning orders. The first job was spinning the fur of a lovely Sheltie called Maggie. I had the honour of meeting Maggie Read More …

Natural dyeing

Posted on June 8, 2014February 25, 2017 by Judy

Summer is the time for natural dyeing. This is dyeing, not with commercial dyes, but with materials I can find around where I live such as flowers or lichen. It’s always Read More …

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