looking for historical images of a great wheel and found this site...

http://mixed-upmelange.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html
the image is from the luttrell psalter, a celebrated manuscript, is one of the most striking to survive from the Middle Ages. Painted in rich colours embellished with gold and silver.
Commissioned by Geoffrey Luttrell, lord of the manor at Irnham, between Grantham and Spalding in Lincolnshire. He owned estates across England, due to his ancestor's loyal support and service to King John. The style of the illumination shows that Sir Geoffrey commissioned the Psalter some time between 1320 and 1340.

The 'Sett' from Benbecula - a weavers song

The black go by the white thread
the white go by the black led
the green go in between red
the red between the black thread.

The black go in between red
the red between the white thread
the white between the green led
the green between the white thread.

The white between the blue thread
the blue between the bright red
the blue, the scarlet-hue wed
the scarlet true the due thread.

The scarlet to the blue thread
the blue to scarlet-hue wed
the scarlet to the black led
the black onto the bright red.

A thread one to the threads two
of colours two, good and true
the two threads of black due
the one the thread or white through.

seven threads to five be
and five be unto three
three to two, two to one
in every border done.

(Poems of the Western Highlands, GRD McLean)

The words of the weavers songs were often improvised or without much meaning, merely to pace the rhythm as the weavers worked. This one illustrates the process...

WOW - Excellent rating for first teaching observation!

"Oh and I just wanted to say how impressed I was by your teaching – some of the best I have seen here, and some glowing comments from the learners back that up. Well done!"

Line manager's report April 2011

Introductory eco felt workshop April 2011

First Mistake - picture too large!

Anyone who finds this will probably be looking at all things related to spinning (wool) but that only makes up a small area of my interests and activities, albeit the beginning of all things related. Felt making and embroidery run alongside that with active membership of the embroiderer's guild, Weavers Spinners and Dyers and International Feltmakers.