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Medieval Girl Power and Silk Women

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The Silkewoman Sue Lamberton shared her treasures and research about the medieval silk women - their achievements in the economic realm in a world in which business was mainly run by men. Sue has taught herself to weave narrow ware and doing netting. Sue setting up her display Netted items   Netting in progress   Silk cocoons and reeled silk Spun silk Finger-loop braiding    Tablet weaving Tablet weaving Tablet weaving Heddle weaving Sue answering questions

2025 Challenge

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 We each had 300g of Yorkshire Wool to play with for our 2025 challenge. These are some results.

October Workshop

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We had a wonderful workshop with Alison Ellen: Designing with Colour, Texture and Pattern.   These are our results.

2024 Challenge

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In 2024 we were given some Jacobs wool and decided to give all members a change to work 300g in whichever way they chose. Here are a few examples of our work: A needle-felted Jacobs sheep A fairisle knitted hat using handspun yarn Mittens in twined knitting using handspun yarn