Sue Hiley Harris showed examples of her work and gave an illustrated lecture on all things silk, including: seri-culture, wild silks, silk reeling, silk for hand-spinning and waste silk.
A silk spinning workshop followed in the afternoon, with a second day at Cumberland Street Centre, Dumfries. Participants learned to make, handle and spin mawata, to worsted spin lustrous combed silk tops, to woollen spin knobbly, strong silk noil fibres, to create exciting yarns with waste silk fibres, to blend silk with other fibres and much, much more about silk and hand-spinning.
We were out and about this summer, including the Wool Tent at the Dumfries Show.
Debbie Zawinski gave a talk on the story behind “In the Footsteps of Sheep” in our morning session and provided a workshop in the afternoon on Spinning Sticks.