Ever since I read Elizabeth Wayland Barber’s extraordinary book Women’s Work: the first 20,000 years, I have been fascinated by spindle spinning. I have a couple of beautiful, wood turned ones, a cherry Maggie and a Bog Oak IST, both top whorl spindles. They are expensive and precious to me. I am careful with them. […]
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Our Dear Boy had grown out of all his woollies. It was time to make something bigger. We talked together about the elements it must include like a hood and a zip. We talked about the elements it might include like particular colours and patterns. Armed with this knowledge, I cast the bones, made the […]
