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 Talks, Demos and Classes  PAST & UPCOMING

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Below: some highlighted talks and demos

 PAST TALKS, DEMOS AND CLASSES
Colours for Christmas
Dyers' day course in Egerton

Egerton Sports Pavilion.
20 & 27 November 2018

See next column for Woolshed classes
Art in Romney Marsh -
13 September at LYDD Parish Church (Mad about Madder)

1 September
Saturday Dye-day at the Woolshed
25 August 2018
Saturday Dye-day at the Woolshed
24 July 2018
Thanet WI Home & Craft Group

7:30pm, Birchington, Kent
28 - 30 April 2018
Bushcraft dyeing at the May Meet
See
​​www.bushcraft-magazine.co.uk/may-day-meet

6 Jun 2017
Weld, Woad and Madder, talk and small demo
​7:30pm, Newchurch WI, Kent

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Below:  A rainbow of colours using vegetable (non-synthetic) dyes. These are rolls of  Romney Marsh wool tops.
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 Above: Jenny using her dyed fleece for needlefelt pictures. (At Egerton Farmers Market on 2nd or 3rd Fridays, 2 - 4.30pm)
Below: Just a few of the colours obtained from madder.

The former Mad about Madder and Loving Logwood course
 is now part of a Dering Dye Day.
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Programme
2020 Courses suspended because of the pandemic

Della Newman (Spinning Earth)
 see Della's site for other fibre craft courses (currently also suspended).
www.spinningearth.co.uk

E-mail her on della [at] spinningearth.co.uk
Della with some of her spinning class depicted below
(used by permission).

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We also have links with
www.wyecommunityfarm.org.uk/
which  supplies a lot of the fleece.
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Below: WOAD, at the Woolshed, Wye.
Direct dyeing pale blue with woad leaves.
It can be much darker - see the photo from the Birchington demo.

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Results from Birchington mini-demo below: madder red/pink, weld yellow, woad indigo (with a touch of purple), and woad indigo on the weld to give a green.
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Above: Selection of naturally-dyed wool, Wensleydale and Blue-faced Leicester. Now in 200g batches and some at 400g.
Yarn from Yorkshire Spinners.

(c) Jenny Oliver 2021
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