Washing Sheep's Fleece
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Generally these days, we wash our sheep's fleeces before carding and
spinning. Greasy fleeces used to be a "thing", especially in the 70's
when there was...
3 days ago
This is both about growing colour quite literally as plants in my garden and also about using them. I dye fibres with natural dyes and use them to "paint" with. This is how I make my landscapes , mostly of the North Wales countryside Mae Tyfu Lliw yn enw addas iawn i'r 'blog' yma. Yr wyf yn cael hwyl yn tyfu bob math o flodau i Helen i'w defnyddio. Mae hi yn creu lluniau bendigedig, mae y lliwiau yn hollol naturiol, ac felly'n gweithio'n dda iawn yn rhoi lliw credadwy o'r wlad o'm cwmpas
Those are just beautiful, Helen!! I especially love the snowy one (although maybe only because we're deep into summer here and the 6 foot drifts of snow are only a memory...)
ReplyDeletemany thanks pshihlady-I agree all that cool snow is good to look at when it is very hot.
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