The story of Baby who lives at The Same-Star Sheep Sanctuary (https://www.facebook.com/samestarsheep) Baby was the catalyst for starting a sheep sanctuary. Baby has a touching back story to how he came to live at the Sanctuary, which I quote from their FB page: My Beautiful Baby- Time for a bit of honesty; Baby, like all of my sheep, means so much to me. But whenever I think of his backstory I feel a heaviness which […]
I don’t know. But how are those beautiful colours in old carpets or Egyptian Coptic textiles like the one in the image above still holding their brightness? Or even earlier, this rug, now in the Hermitage which dates to 400BC? In my search for sustainable natural dyeing I came across the fermentation method as practiced by Manfred Bierber. The carpet pictured above also seems to have been made using the same technique. I don’t know […]
Is any wool cruelty free? Can vegans wear wool?
I have been trying to spin yarn fine enough to go through my antique/vintage sock machines, and thought I’d try with wool from this young man above. This is Dexter who lives at The Same Star Sheep Sanctuary. The picture is from their Facebook page; if you are on Facebook, check them out and see the amazing work they do. They are a sanctuary in Norfolk and, as they say, providing a safe home for […]
New purchases, dyeing with madder, another bowmont fleece, and on not being allowed to use the outdoors for drying
