Meeting Kate

Last Thursday four members of The Weavers’ Workshop travelled to Hockley Heath to sample the fun at Ashford Spin and Weave Day, hosted by Fibre Hut at Boxtrees Farm.  The lovely Kate Sherratt of YouTube fame had travelled all the way from Ashford, New Zealand and kept visitors entertained all day with her unique and fun-filled demonstrations.  Morning was devoted to spinning wheels and the afternoon to new and wonderful ways of weaving on rigid heddle looms.    This included variable spaced reeds for weaving spaced and crammed cloth, adaptors for using double heddle techniques to make double cloth and double width cloth as well as well as how to link warps to make ‘ikat’ cloth.  The possibilities were amazing – a real eye-opener to the versatility of the simple rigid heddle loom.  At the end of the day we all had a little splurge in the Fibre Hut shop and came away with the potential to get creative in new and exciting ways.

Ingrid and Pam get to meet Kate.

Ingrid and Pam meet Kate.

 

 

 

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