The commitment to a Sunshine Coast Fibreshed began 3½ years ago with an article in ‘Weaving Today’ on Rebecca Burgess and her quest to bring together farmers, spinners, knitters, weavers, dyers and clothing makers within 150 miles of her Northern California home. Her commitment to caring about “how do we clothe ourselves?” was echoed from […]
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The Icelandic Fleece Project – Part 1 (An Overview)
In October of 2014 our Fibreshed team had the great pleasure of witnessing the first shearing of the small flock of Icelandic sheep at Leila Bee’s Round Table Farms. See our blog of November 10, 2014 for the video Ron McInnis generously filmed and edited for the Fibreshed. Needless to say the arrival of our […]
Read MoreComing Full Circle – the Fibre Circle
It is with great fulfillment that I share this latest blog with you as we approach 2015. Personally, my focused interest has been on the search for local fibre and I’ve spent the year looking for a local source of wool other than our Olivia and the products from her fleece featured at our Fibres […]
Read MoreFibre Circle Video
The raw fleeces sheared from the Icelandic sheep (see blog November 10) became the focus of a newly formed Fibre Circle hosted and facilitated by Yvonne Stowell at the FibreWorks Studio and Gallery. We met for two days to learn how to skirt, wash, comb, card and spin this beautiful fibre. (See the upcoming blog […]
Read MoreShearing of the Icelandic Sheep
In the blog posting of June 23, 2014 we met Leila Bee’s four Icelandic sheep – Prince, Belle, Roxy and Ginger. This fall the sheep were sheared – an exciting step in the Fibreshed’s goal of greater fibre self-sufficiency on the Sunshine Coast. Ron McInnis of Imaginary Image created a beautiful video recording this event. […]
Read MoreIcelandic Sheep Come to the Sunshine Coast
(The Icelandic sheep is an ancient Northern European breed that was brought to Iceland by the Vikings in the Middle Ages. It is possibly the oldest and purest domesticated breed of sheep in the world today. Their double-layered coat is well suited to cold and wet conditions. While they are usually raised mainly for meat, […]
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