After a couple of months of long working into the evening, both by me and my dear husband, I am delighted to welcome you to my new website, web shop and blog. I am really delighted with the new look, big photos so you can really see the detail and a nice clean look which I have been desperate to…
Having grown up being known as Maddy I have always felt a kinship with madder. But madder reds have always been somewhat of a mystery. When I planted up my dye garden in my allotment I did of course include madder, along with blue-making woad and some other dye favourites of mine – mostly yellow producing dyes. The chemistry of…
I so look forward to my trips to Cornwall. It is a coming home for me as my mother grew up there, we spent much of my childhood down there and I lived there some years ago. And I still like nothing more than ambling about gathering stuff and seeing what I can do with it (with permission of course).…
Last spring I had an enforced weaving holiday, brought about by the fact that my studio was turned (temporarily) into a storage space while we emptied our loft in readiness to have it converted and extended. It was very hard to interrupt the creative process but it gave me an opportunity to do some of the other things I love and which…