Author Archives: Jen

Introducing a new design: guest review by May G-B!

We’ve been working on a new design, with a working title of ‘Northern Lights’, for many months now. It was a difficult process because, like the ‘Winter Hill’ design, it has personal significance and that makes every single pencil mark so much more important. Sentiment can stir up a special level creative energy and sensitivity, but […]

Aurora Cirrus Seafoam

Weaving is an incredibly old skill- we have been making textiles for many thousands of years, and cloth massively shaped the development of our modern society. We take it for granted, but it is a pretty amazing feat of engineering- taking fibres and turning them into a material that has a completely new set of properties. Individual threads […]

Heath Glasto Kaleidoscope

Brown can often be relegated to the ‘autumn’ box of colours, but actually it can be incredibly summery. We’ve gone for a cool shade reminiscent of  the dry bare earth underneath tree canopies and the dancing heads of ribwort flowers under hawthorn hedges. It helps to bring out the blue tones in the glasto warp. […]

Copper Glasto Tentacular Spectacular

This copper weft is our spindrift hemp, grown and spun in Europe but dyed for us in Lancashire. It is grown using sustainable methods. Its natural mildew and microbial resistance means that it can be grown organically without  reliance on chemicals. Our supplier uses traditional, mechanical methods rather than chemical processing to grow and process the hemp yarn […]

Gorse Glasto Kaleidoscope

There is something about this wrap that makes me want to prance about in the fields by our house. I imagine that blue tits would braid my hair as I skipped in the sunlight. This elven fantasy may be in part fuelled by our current bedtime reading of Enid Blyton’s classic “The Enchanted Wood”, but I imagine […]

Creases: Perma Creasing, Wash Creasing and Threadshifting in Woven Wraps

Creases: Perma Creasing, Wash Creasing and Threadshifting in Woven Wraps

There are two terms that are a regular part of the babywearing vocabulary relating to movement of threads in the cloth structure- “perma-creasing” and “thread-shifting”. We’ve identified a 3rd different type of creasing too- wash creasing. This is often mis-described as perma-creasing, but the two are quite distinct. It is useful for us all to […]

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