Selvedge Spring Fair, Stroud

Am all ready for tomorrow where I will be at The Selvedge Spring Fair, The Subscription Rooms, Stroud from 9 til 4pm…. with a lovely selection of natural dyed products in ‘Spring-like’ colours….matka silk scarves, silk and merino wool shawls, hand stitched kantha coasters, handmade paper notebooks…and lots more!

Woad Dyeing

Natural dyeing with woad and weld yesterday at The National Wool Museum, Pembrokeshire with Susan Martin. We created beautiful shades of blues and greens. It was a bit of an experiment too with different yarns/fleece like soya bean fibre, bamboo and alpaca. Wonderful watching the colour oxidise as you pull it out from the dye […]