Afternoon felt workshop in Galgael, in Ibrox / Glasgow Thursday, the 12th of Dec. 4-5.30pm

Felting is a traditional skill that has been practiced for thousands of years. We still practice it here in GalGael and are happy to teach you how to do it!

The aim of this workshop is to learn the basic skills of traditional wet felting, using natural and colourful sheep’s wool fibers, warm water, soap and friction.

You will:
● learn to felt a flat piece e.g. a little picture,
a felted piece for a brooch or a felted flower
● experiment with colours and design
● take home a unique piece of hand made felt.

At the end of the workshop you will have your own felted items and have learned a new and traditional skill.
Please bring 1 towel and a plastic bag for your finished work.

Cost: £5 including material
Please feel free to invite your friends!
Workshop facilitator: Laryna E. Wuppermann, Fiber craft artist
Please book asap, as places are limited
GalGael office: 0141/ 427 30 70
Venue: Galgael, 15 Fairley Street, G51 2SN Glasgow/Ibrox
Please check out Laryna's blog



 

Hurray, the rug is finished

Colourful rug 

The 0.70m x 1.35m hand woven rug from recycled cotton strips is finished. We did cut hundreds of strips from, pillow cases, duvet covers, sheets, skirts, t-shirts, tops, hoodies and more to weave this colourful rug. Many hands from small to tall folk were having a shot at the hand loom. Most people were weaving for the very first time in their life! They all enjoyed it, some for longer and others just for a wee trial. 
We are happy to take commissions for an individualized rug! Come along to Galgael on a Thursday night from about 5.30pm and meet us wool crafters and lots more lovely folk. 
You can email us: woolcraft.atgalgael@googlemail.com
 

Felt workshop in GalGael on Thursday, the 21st of Nov. 4-5.30pm

Felting is a traditional skill that has been practiced for thousands of years. We still practice it here in GalGael and are happy to teach you how to do it!

The aim of this workshop is to teach the basic skills of traditional wet felting, using natural and colourful sheep’s wool fibers, warm water, soap and friction.

You will:
● learn to felt a flat piece e.g. a little picture, a felted piece for a brooch or a felted flower
● experiment with colours and design
● take home a unique piece of hand made felt.

At the end of the workshop you will have your own felted items and have learned a new and traditional skill.
Please bring 1 towel and a plastic bag for your finished work.

Cost: £5, including material
Please feel free to invite your friends!
Workshop facilitator: Laryna E. Wuppermann, Fiber craft artist
Please book asap, as places are limited
GalGael office: 0141/ 427 30 70
Venue: Galgael, 15 Fairley Street, G51 2SN Glasgow/Ibrox
Please check out this blog:http://creativefibercraftbylaryna.blogspot.co.uk/
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"Inspired by the colours of Autumn" needle felt workshop in GalGael on Thursday 31st of October 4-5.30pm

In this first of 3 felt workshops you will learn how to needle felt or improve your skills in needle felting. We will use natural fluffy wool and colourful dyed wool fibres to create autumnal objects like leaves, fruits, a pumpkin, mushrooms or a little ornament.
This is a great opportunity to learn a new skill, or improve your felt skills and create a beautiful object. It's fun and easy to learn!
No previous experience needed!

Needle felted apple

Please feel free to invite friends!
Cost:£5 incl. wool

This workshop is lead by Laryna, volunteer in GalGael.

More felt workshops, including wet felt workshops, on Thursday, the 21st of November and 12th of December 4-5.30pm.

Venue: Galgael, 15 Fairley Street, Glasgow/Ibrox, G51 2SN
Please book your place via Galgael's office: 0141/4273070
or via Laryna: 07503 210 416

Two needle felt workshops in GalGael

 Needle fellted butterflies  An opportunity to felt for beginners Come along to GalGael and get creative with colourful sheep's wool fibres on Thursday, the 27th of June 2013, 4-5.30pm. This is one of two felt workshops, run by Laryna (Woolcraft volunteer in Galgael.) The second workshop will be on Thursday, the 11th of July, 4-5.30pm. You will learn how to use a felt needle to sculpture the wool with the felt needle and create e.g. a little animal or a figure, or even start to sculpture a face; create a fairy, jewellery or any other 2- or 3 dimensional item. It's fun, I love it and like to share my skills with anybody being interested. Children are welcome and need to be accompanied by an adult. The sessions can be booked separately. No previous experience necessary.  Suggested donation: £5  Please, spread the word, invite friends!   Good to start with: A rainbow bracelet If you are planning to take part, please send an email to: woolcraft.atgalgael@googlemail.com or just come along to GalGael in 15 Fairley Street, Glasgow/ Ibrox, G51 2SN.  These workshops are run by Laryna E. Wuppermann Please, feel free to check out Laryna's blog: http://creativefibercraftbylaryna.blogspot.co.uk/ To needle felt a brown bear is good fun. It needs a bit of patience and some experience in needle felting or sculpturing in general.  Green man, needle felted face and wet felted leaves. An opportunity to felt for experienced felters

The start of weaving a rag rug from recycled material

Hello, a new project has started. We recycle used cotton material into a beautiful hand woven rag rug!

Would you like to have a go on weaving the rag rug?  Or do you have any used material, like bed sheets, pillow cases duvet covers, t-shirts or any other clean cotton material? If yes, please donate the material to us for more rag rugs to be woven. Or would you like to commission your own personalized rag rug? Let us know and we'll see what we can create for you!
You can contact us here.
Or just come along to GalGael on a Thursday night, when GalGael is open till about 8pm.

Hand woven rug, made from hand spun sheep's wool

Just finished our latest hand woven rug, made in team work.

We used handspun plied sheep's wool in natural white and brown shades. It's a precious, unique hand crafted piece for somebody's home, you can't buy in a supermarket. 

 

You can see and even buy this beautiful rug here:

 

Come along to GalGael to celebrate Spring this Saturday's 4th of May, 10am-4pm in Galgael's Spring fayre:

http://www.galgael.org/news-and-events/spring-fayre

 

Or join us on a Thursday night 5pm- about 8.30pm. 

 

 

 

The proceeds from this beautiful rug will go towards GalGael's sail loft development.

Two all-day wool craft workshops: A "Spinning / Natural Dyeing Workshop" and a "Felt Workshop", Saturday 20th April 2013, 10am-4pm

All Day Spinning and Natural Dyeing Workshop

 
Spinning and natural dyeing of sheep’s wool are skills that have been practiced for thousands of years. We still practice them here in GalGael and are happy to teach you how to do them! The kind of plants we will use, were already used in ancient times to colour cloth. 

The aim of this workshop is to teach the basic skills from raw sheep’s wool to a hand spun & natural dyed yarn. 

Some of the things you will learn about are:
• carding the wool with hand carders & drum carder;
• spinning with drop spindle and spinning wheel;
• natural dyeing with plants;

Natural dyeing in process

At the end of the workshop you will have your own hank or ball of hand spun undyed wool and one of natural dyed
wool and have learned traditional wool processing skills.
Feel free to bring your own drop spindle, spinning wheel or other equipment along with you. 

Please bring a packed lunch.
Cost: £50 incl. materials, tea & coffee
Workshop facilitators: Tartan Heather & Gillian Richardson
Please book asap, as places are limited
GalGael: 0141 4273070
Venue: GalGael, 15 Fairley Street, Glasgow/Ibrox G51 2SN 
Just 5 mins walk from Ibrox subway
Galgael's website:www.galgael.org

All Day Felt Workshop

Get a feeling for felt 
Wet felting workshop for beginners+ 

Seamless felted case for glasses

Felt making is a skill that has been practiced for thousands of years. We still practice it here in GalGael and are happy
to teach you how to do it!

The aim of this workshop is to teach the basic skills of traditional wet felting, using natural and colourful sheep’s wool fibres.
 You will:
• learn to felt cords and a ball/bead
• learn to felt a flat piece
• experiment with colours and design
• use a template to felt a seamless hollow vessel,
  e.g. a pouch or a case or a pair of wrist cuffs.
• learn different ways of finishing off the felted items. 

At the end of the workshop you will have your own felted items and have learned a new and traditional skill. 

Felted beads made into 
a  necklace and earrings

Please bring 2 towels, a bar of glycerine soap (e.g.Pears) and a plastic bag for your finished work and a packed lunch. Tea and coffee provided.
Cost: £40 incl. material

Workshop facilitator:Laryna Wuppermann, Fibre craft artist

Please book asap, as places are limited
GalGael office: 0141 4273070
Venue: GalGael, 15 Fairley Street, Glasgow/Ibrox 
Just 5 mins walk from Ibrox subway
Galgael's website:www.galgael.org 

Felted wrist cuffs

Visitors from the Govan based project:" Weaving Truth with Trust"in GalGael and visit to the Weaver's Cottage in Kilbarchan

Last Thursday 3 artists from the Govan based project: "Weaving Truth with Trust" visited GalGael. They wanted to find out more about the traditional wool processing from raw wool, to teasing, carding, spinning and eventually weaving the woollen tread into a rug. They had a go on carding and spinning, as you can see in the photos. We shared knowledge, experience and stories, which was great fun. Please, check out the link to the project: "Weaving Truth with Trust"
http://weavingtruthwithtrust.org/

Demonstrating the carding of sheep's wool with hand carders

G. has a go on the spinning wheel

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...having a go on spinning...

Laryna demonstrates weaving on the rug

Last Saturday the ladies from the "Weaving Truth with Trust" project and friends went to the Weaver's Cottage in Kilbarchan. That was an amazing experience!
The lovely and knowledgeable Christine MacLeod was a wonderful guide through the museum and we heard about the weaving tradition in the area. Old times became almost alive. Please, check out the link to the Weaver's Cottage
http://www.nts.org.uk/Property/Weavers-Cottage/



The cottage's kitchen, living room, and bedroom in once



Weaving workshop in the cellar

The tartan weaving loom

An Imbolc celebration at Galgael on Thursday night 31st of January

Issy will plant this snowdrop in her neighbourhood or garden

Last Thursday night in GalGael was dedicated to Imbolc, the celtic cross quater festival, which marks the first signs of Spring. We started the celebration with a Celtic story: "The Earth Shapers", conveying how Brighid heard the earth sing because she has dreamt about beauty, and how the Chaos-Earth has then been re-shaped by the De Danaan, and blessed with the 3 waves of Mananan. All very much pertaining to the Galgael one would think?.Anneruth told the story, while fascinated eyes watched and open hearts and ears listened. Laryna accompanied the story with sounds from cimbal, singing bowl, recorder and drum. 

Afterwards we enjoyed and shared a delicious dinner, listened to poetry, and song

 and shared what we know and heard about Imbolc and this time of the year. A few folks created a couple of Brigid's crosses. Others took the instructions and reeds home to have a go later. 

round and round and round the weaving goes

Gehan distributed snow drops for people to take home to plant with their intent (inmost wellbeing wish) for this coming season, the slow Scottish Spring.

taking bulbs and soil home

Please, check out the picasa album for some more impressions of that night in GalGael and enjoy!

Brigid's cross, made from reeds.

Brighid figure with ewe, and lamb, felted from wool.