The Lavenham Guild of Spinners and Weavers held a 2 day sampling weekend enabling spinners to sample a huge variety of fibres. Holly (another 3rd year textile student from NUA ) and I headed of to Lavenham with our spinning wheels in tow. The village hall was filled with spinners and spinning wheels , I don’t think I have ever seen so many spinning wheels.
A collection of our spinning wheels
Hollie at her spinning wheel Me spinning a rather lumpy fibre
This weekend was a really good experience enabling us to experiment with a huge variety of fibres that we do not normally have access to. Saturday evening was spent evaluating each fibre, I created small hanks from each fibre sample, these samples were collated to form my own fibre record, this will be added to as my experiments with fibres continue. I returned to Lavenham on the Sunday to experiment further also developing my sampling based on the samples created on previous day. I was able to purchase suitable fibres for my body project based on the sampling carried out.
Photograph showing fibre samples continue to develop fibre sample record. This has record has created a valuable resource for future use.