Fibreshed members hosted a day featuring fibre produced here on the Coast, at Fibreworks Gallery in Madeira Park. The clear, sunny day required that we provide shade for everyone, and we followed social-distancing protocol throughout. Members of the public enjoyed seeing the processes of taking wool from the raw fleece all the way to a […]
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Wool Day at the Yurts
Our Fibreshed was the grateful recipient of many pounds of raw Suffolk fleece donated by the good people at Mason Bluff Farm in Sechelt (and by ten happy sheep who were glad to be shorn of their winter coats). The wool needed to be sorted and washed before it was usable, though, so several Fibreshed […]
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Fibreshed has set up a display table at Fibreworks Studio and Gallery in Madeira Park, BC. The natural colours from the 2019 Fibreshed dye garden are featured, along with colours from local lichens and mushrooms. On the shelves are items for sale, including batts, skeins, shawls, hats, buttons, ants . . . […]
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