Anneruth is in a dyeing mood, and collected glorious heather from the Meldon HIlls
wool dyed with wild camomile collected in June from a local wasteland
and this is the wool dyed with the heather
Sarah-Jane laying another stone-felt sheet
Katie carding the shetland wool for the hat base
at Plantation: Ali laying and needling the hill-contours to the fragile prefelt base
Patricia and Katie needling a base
Melanie needling away making the shetland wool base for her planned hat with Patricia watching
Katie laying it on thick for her hat!
whilst Patricia needled a wee doll for Anneruth
Hans the hat shaper foam head !
Melanie has laid out the colours for her hat - which will become a cushion...
Katie's hat will go to Germany and get finished there
the inside of Katies hat which might become the outside
the farewell gift of our German girls to the Galgael
Lawrie snr showing Innes from Sgioba Luaidh round the workshop
Tam showing Frances from Sgioba Luaidh the wonders of Galgael
Frances and Norma listening to Sarah-Jane singing a Gaelic song
Norman inspecting the treasures of Sgioba
Frances and Innes doing a quick demo of a waulking song
to every one's delight
George, friend of Norman, giving us a piping demo
the wee bothy is kind of too small for all that sound weaving!
held in thrall by George
at Plantation: cutting the last piece of stone felt
as well as : wool mouldng and adding featues to the tree
Mary laying the background wool colours on the prefelt for the 4 seasons
Mary and Ali: gosh they were quick!
Tawny is helping Ali now
whilst Debbie in the bothy is laying the base for her cushion cover
at Plantation: needlefelting butterflies and branches for the tree
whilst Flora, the seamstress is getting into action: sewing the stone pieces together
back at Galgael: now the detail work is going on for the 4 seasons
so many colours - so many choices!
Lynsey and Ali having a ball
and Debbie is making a dog
as well as those sheep
the work on the portal as it is taking shape: laid out for the Open Doors Day
here now also displaying the butterflies and sheep and dog and leaf sheets
oops: what's that yellow shape in the river?
Luis the potter finding he LOVES needle felting as he helps us with the details: he made the boat
at last, Anneruth's warp is finished: here the last piece, experimenting with different thickness of weft
the whole warp is on that role
measuring the density of weft and warp off the loom
quite loose - wonder how it will shrink in the fulling process?
the long shawl-like material off the loom
pretty loose and hard the fabric...
but this is how it looks after the fulling! a soft and closewoven shawl!
if you compare you can see how it shrunk..
and that is the test piece as table runner.. with ends in thicker weft (=wider)
For the OPEN DOOR DAY: our wee bothy at its best and in display mode
remember the felted sun and star mobile?
Martin built us a shelf (on top left) - at last we can take the books of the table top
Rosemary for good scent
one silk painting by the late Colin Macloed (Galgael's founder) came out of the closet for the open day
Oran, his son, what has he found here?
back at Plantation: Debbie's cushion cover is getting ready: here the felted piece with one of many more to come needlefelted butterflies and framed by deep blue velvet
busy last day at the Portal!
painting with wool
that is Alex's cushion cover to be in there!
thats it waulked or fulled now!
fulled too
