Spinning on the Icelandic Top-whorl Spindle

When
Thursday, May 24, 2018
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location
Ailsa Craig Arts Centre Classroom - Back of Ye Olde Town Hall

Registration

Festival Guest – $90.40
THe course fee is $80 + $10.40 HST = $90.40

Registration is closed

Maria Anna will offer a whole day spinning course. Students will spin a yarn and ply, and will go home with their own handspun ball or skein of yarn. Students will learn about Icelandic sheep, their characteristics and the properties of the fleece, as well as how wool work was traditionally organised annually: shearing, washing, preparing for wool for spinning and weaving.

Icelandic spindles, rovings, carders and a niddy-noddy for making skeins will be provided.

Materials supplied:
-          Icelandic drop spindles
-          Icelandic carders

Materials to bring:
-          Apron or towel
-          Paper and pencil
-          A bowl, flowerpot or vessel deep enough to hold two balls of yarn.
WOOL: Students should try to bring their own clean raw wool fleece, (Icelandic, if possible).

Prepared packages of fleece will be available that can be purchased for the class at a modest price. Students will be provided with quantity and cost details upon registration.

Maria Anna has taught spinning and other traditional woolcrafts for 20 years at Heimilisiðnaðarskólinn in Reykjavík (school for traditional handcrafts). She also dyes with plants, weaves, does fingerlooping, nålbinding and distaff spinning.

NOTE: For full-day classes, students may bring a bag lunch, or have the option of dining in the Festival Cafe. Registered students will be able to order their lunch at the beginning of the class. Their lunch will be ready for them at the Cafe in the Community Centre, to avoid any lunch-time line-ups.