As a part of our Re-Fashioned Textile Fest, Susan Denham-Smith will be hosting a taster session of wool processing. This will be immediately followed by Drop Spindle Spinning where you can use what you produced from this workshop in the second workshop with Susan.
This workshop will teach the skill of cleaning and processing a freshly shorn woolly fleece from a sheep. Learn about how to create fluffy roalgs, batts, and nests of beautiful wool from different breeds of sheep, ready for spinning or felting. This is a hands on session using carders and combs. You will take home some hand carded rolags of natural wool.
Susan is a member of the Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers, and a qualified master spinning teacher. She has been teaching crafts for over 20 years, with the National Trust, in schools and galleries and the long- running craft club at The Fox and Hounds Inn, Ennerdale Bridge. She is currently working with blends of Herdwick and luxury fibres such as silk, linen and alpaca in a bid to “Make Herdwick Sexy”
This session is suitable for beginners aged 18+ with reasonable mobility. Our centre is wheelchair accessible with parking on site, ramped access to the studio door and level throughout. We have a wheelchair-accessible toilet.