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