This lovely video of the AGWSD (Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners & Dyers) Summer School at Askham Bryan College popped up in my Facebook feed this week and I thought you might enjoy it. As well as the work of some of my hand-dyeing students on my ‘Dyeing: A technique (or two!) a day’ …
Summer School and the colours are exploding everywhere! Three days into Summer School and we are having an amazing time! The students have been kept busy and so far the group have produced over 150 samples and between them have dyed around 100 skeins of yarn/fibre! We’ve experimented with solid colour, handpaints, ball-dyeing, blending and …
Summer School Day One Day One was a helter skelter of introductions, lots of sampling, starting the first colourways (and a bit of maths!). Before the course, students were encouraged to bring inspiration images and objects and they had clearly done their homework! After producing the first set of samples for their recipe books, we …
