In early June, most of the vadmal weavers took a break from their looms and went to the Outer Hebrides. Or in my case, just took a break. ...

Like I wrote in the previous post , I decided to weave a cloth with a similar number of warp threads/cm to the mid-14th century Bocksten tu...

After years of staring miserably at my empty loom, I finally decided what I needed to get weaving again: set deadlines and external pressur...

The Historical Sew Fortnightly After some internal debate ('I don't need more things to sew. Or time constraints!' -'...

So what to do with small amounts of very pretty, handspun wool? Samples, of course!!! Here's what I did with the woad-dyed Finnish Jaala...

"I knew they were crazy, those Finns, but blue sheep? Really?!", said boyfriend J-E when he came home yesterday and found me with ...

The cloak I have an inexplicable passion for short cloaks. They're not the commonest or most documentable of garments, though, espec...