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From Fleece to Shawl: Process and products My tiny garden is filled with herbs and dye plants.  The dye plants include weld, woad, indigo, elecampane, coriopsis and madder.  The garden also serves as an area for scouring and drying fleece.  Old wooden washstands, such as the one pictured here, make excellent drying racks These shawls were woven on the Masterweaver.  The warp on the left was space-dyed using madder and elecampane with a madder-dyed weft. The other used the space-dyed yarn in the weft and the solid in the warp The throw on the left was woven on the Leclerc compact loom, double width.  The blanket on the right was woven on the Leclerc Fanny  using hand spun and hand dyed wool. This wedding canopy was woven in linen and cotton for David (#2 son)  and Wendy's wedding.  Wendy embroidered their names and the wedding date on the ends.  Peter (#3 son) set up the trellis and canopy. Gaye and Mike (#1 son) supervised the decoration of the trellis with fresh flowers.   It now serves  as a piano shawl in David and Wendy,s new home. A throw woven as a birthday present for Marylou, a friend who manages to find wonderful weaving equipment at lawn sales.   One of several 14' long birds eye and twill samplers which now serve as holiday table cloths The flower holder and table runner were woven on the Guildcraft Speedloom, using handspun hemp died with apple bark and madder, with an iron post mordant. The cotton chenille scarves were woven on the Guildcraft Speedloom.  The soft beige warp and weft were dyed with tree fungus.  The other colours are from commercial dyes.  The four plain-weave wool /mohair scarves were also woven on the Guildcraft.   The remaining three were woven on the Compact.   page created with Webpage Designer (NS)