Nicola's pictures are wet felted and inspired by the countryside surrounding her Mid-Wales home. She uses our naturally dyed Blue Faced Leicester and silk caps in her beautiful fine art picture.
Notes from the sketchbooks and archives of a dyer and her friends.
Showing posts with label workshops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label workshops. Show all posts
Thursday, 25 July 2013
Felt Fine
A number of felt makers are buying Pure Tinctoria Natural Dye Extracts and our naturally dyed fibres. I've great pleasure in introducing Felt Fine by Nicola Knapton from Wales.
Nicola's pictures are wet felted and inspired by the countryside surrounding her Mid-Wales home. She uses our naturally dyed Blue Faced Leicester and silk caps in her beautiful fine art picture.
Nicola teaches wet felting workshops and has exhibited at a number of Art and Craft Markets in Ludlow.
Nicola's pictures are wet felted and inspired by the countryside surrounding her Mid-Wales home. She uses our naturally dyed Blue Faced Leicester and silk caps in her beautiful fine art picture.
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Workshop at the Bowland Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers
On May Day I was at the Bowland Guild in Lancashire to tutor a workshop using Pure Tinctoria natural dye extracts. It was a lovely day weather wise and proved to be a lovely day teaching wise, too!
I was amazed at the number of people attending, I usually limit the numbers to 10, but they were prepared to bring more electric hot plates and additional pots, so we had at least 16! And with the remainder of the guild spinning at the far end of the room, away from our hot plates, the room was packed. Obviously Health and Safety came into very strict play, to prevent any accidents and everyone was really patient waiting their turn to weight dyes and yarns/fibres.
Here are a selection of pictures that the guild took at one of their meeting the following month which shows what a fabulous range of yarns were produced that day.
Yarns ranged from handspun to commercial, fine to chunky, plain to boucle!
We did centre pull ball dyeing using two colours, painted yarns and fibres and indigo!
There were fibres including tops and home produced alpaca and mohair.
I was amazed at the number of people attending, I usually limit the numbers to 10, but they were prepared to bring more electric hot plates and additional pots, so we had at least 16! And with the remainder of the guild spinning at the far end of the room, away from our hot plates, the room was packed. Obviously Health and Safety came into very strict play, to prevent any accidents and everyone was really patient waiting their turn to weight dyes and yarns/fibres.
Here are a selection of pictures that the guild took at one of their meeting the following month which shows what a fabulous range of yarns were produced that day.
We did centre pull ball dyeing using two colours, painted yarns and fibres and indigo!
And every colour of the rainbow was produce.
All in a day!
Amazing!
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