Meet Angela from Woofs and Wool (and her whippets) – a self-confessed ‘yarnaholic’ who makes colourful creations for you, your home and your hound!
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Julie Colquitt from YarnYarn takes us on a journey to Bihar, India, to show how her ethical yarns and silk sari ribbons are made.
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Julie Colquitt discovered her fascination for unusual yarn while sourcing silks for her fibre art bags. She now buys hand-spun and hand-dyed recycled sari yarns directly from a women’s co-operatives in rural India, along with rare-breed yarns bought directly from the producers in northern Scotland. She sells the yarns through her shop Yarn Yarn and also has her own line of own wearable art made from the yarns, ribbons and silks, which she produces under the label Crochet Mushroom from her studio on the River Tay in Fife. We spoke to Julie about her the two lines of her work…
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Written by AmyOrangejuice In contrast to my last post on the modern art of photography; this week I am exploring an ancient human activity. Since humans worked out how to…