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‘Weaving a road to a fairer global economy: a journey in maker activism’ by Kate Stuart in No Serial Number magazine (print edition), Autumn 2018

Landscape Medicine: the handweaving of Eloïse Sentito (a love story for Fashion Revolution Week) by Kate Stuart, No Serial Number Magazine, Spring 2018

BBC Radio 4, Saturday Live, Autumn 2017, presented by Rev Richard Coles, produced by Paula McGinley

Guild of Master Craftsmen: Breathe Magazine, Issue 5, Spring 2017, ‘Tiny House Living’, by Carol Anne Strange

Etsy Seller Handbook: Inspiring Workplaces, by Julie Schneider, August 2016

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Red is so hard to render in #photography, but I just found a way, and then sold this one, yey! #weaving #theseisles

This scarf is an indulgence, in that I'm trying not to import yarns across continents, but I did. As well as the multiflecked #tweed #seascape warp made of #scottishisland #wool, there's a #Peruvian #alpaca weft stunningly petrolpainted in teals, blues and greens. (It's not actually painted in petrol, that was figurative.) The effect is smart, elegant, artistic and #earthen all at once. Result. (When ye all are prepared to buy just one or two items of clothing a year and spend a lot on it, I'll be able to afford to use locally or self-spun and veg dyed alpaca. In my utopian economics, that is. Meantime I'm aware that my existing prices feel pretty high to many. Grrr, I hate our current world order!)

#Brexit. On a good day.

A #Picasso three-nosed #Brexit face, cushioned by a soft teal #celtic #harbour snug in #alpaca and #scottishisland wool. (The alpaca is from Peru and so my sourcing of that may not be affected by Brexit, but I hope to cease sourcing it anyway in favour of something more #local and #sustainable. I hope always to be able to travel freely to #Scotland to source the #Harris and #Shetland myself!)

That #Celtic #harbour wove batch? This is the teal snug, as per the delicate zig zag with subtle orange highlights in previous photos. Just the one available in my #Etsy shop right now.

The same #jade #seascape #cowl again, pictured with #kelp on the #Breton shore at www.etsy.com/uk/listing/587406365 (or just type this item number into #Etsy's search function).

#Seascape #cowl #handwoven in #Brittany, travelled to #Scotland, photographed here in #Devon, inspired by #Ireland. Think foggy #Atlantic breakers. Sometimes I have a Little Match Girl complex, but I'm pleased with this picture nonetheless. And the #weaving, come to that. It's soft with its #alpaca weft face; sturdy with its #scottishisland #tweed warp; and nicely draped thanks to a diagonal #twill weave. It's in my #Etsy shop now. #theseisles

A lovely #homesteading, #sheeprearing, #gaelicspeaking #fleecespinning woman in #Wyoming with a #rug-weaving husband has just become my best ever customer. She was also asking about character and fit of my #seascape woves, so I did a spontaneous photo shoot for her. Tired, cold and rushed, I nearly discarded this heroin-chic, one-armed weirdness, but then decided it was the best photo of all, and that I should sex up my look. I'd like to say: 'Stand by for some shit hot #portraiture', but, as I say, this was the best of the lot. However, stand by for some more illustrations of woves on women who are not made of #willow... (that will mean something to you if you've ever browsed my #Etsy shop.)

I was given the measurements of the #loom before I bid on it. I'd understood it was not dismantleable. I was thinking about where I'd store it until I sorted a bigger #workshop. Until I'd already driven 200 miles, I'd failed to think about the dimensions of the #van doors...

Today I'm collecting a new #loom, and any maker will know just how exciting that is. I'm just taking photos of the joints so I can reassemble it again before I dismantle it to fit in the van. I'll add more photos on the next few days, and I'd love you to guess what kind of loom it is. First clue: people don't part with these very often...

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