This morning I woke up early and knew that I wasn’t going to catch that extra half hour of delicious ‘second sleep’ so I decided to just cut my losses and get up. It was so early in fact that I was in time to watch the sunrise – something …
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Studio notes from the beautiful Drakensberg.
Somehow it seems as though we look forward to something for such a long while, and then in the blink of an eye, it is done and dusted and behind us, as though it was a little bit of a dream. So it feels with the first Drakensberg Fibre festival. …
There’s new life all around the loom with a View
Well, what can I say? The Winter has been and gone, and in the Lowveld we have simply moved from Winter to Summer without the benefit of Spring to gently transition us from one to the other. Today is sitting up at around 36 degrees Celcius and we have Bergwinds …
Weaving up a storm at the Loom with a View.
I think that I am right in assuming that most of us are looking forward to the first signs of Spring, after what has been, for many people, a pretty torrid Winter. Of course, we get off quite lightly as far as Winter is concerned in the Lowveld, but even …
The view from my loom has changed a little
…. as the August winds have arrived punctually in the Lowveld and it is too dusty and windy to weave on the patio right now! Having said that, it doesn’t mean that I have been idle – in fact far from it! The Rep weave is off the eight shaft …