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Killarney National Park 9

Published March 30, 2017 at 1280 × 857 in Killarney National Park 9

These Isles

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#hedgewitchery meet #machair I've tried to #weave them both into a #rug. I'll post the #Etsy listing on Facebook first, so do follow me there too: www.facebook.com/theseisles

Some of these acid colours have been sitting (well, travelling) in my stash since I first came to the Outer Hebrides three years ago. The finer stuff here is the same wool that's used in Harris Tweed, in uncharacteristically bright colours. Presumably inspired by the same astonishingly rainbowoid machair flowers, the #tweed weavers make fine-detailed cloth, while I've made a chunky rug with some more organic detailed stripes amid the solid green swathes. (I'm now waiting out the characteristic wet gales for a bright window on white sand for a full photo shoot. I'm glad I shot the #machair the other week though, because the flowers have mostly given up waiting, and gone.) #weaving #theseisles is inspiring but unpredictable...

Because the camera on my phone is rubbish, I took this (and likely most other photos from here on in) on my DSLR, edited it on my computer, took my computer up a hill (to get a signal on my phone by which to tether - it's like that here in the #outerhebrides), emailed it to myself, picked up the email on my phone the next day, took my phone up a hill, downloaded it, and uploaded it again. It'd be quicker if I just brought the #harebells to your door. #sustainablelivelihoods in the digital age? Hmm. PS if you happen to be parting with the penultimate #iPhone and would like to use it to buy a #theseisles #weaving (see www.etsy.com/uk/shop/theseisles) then please email me at theseisles@gmail.com My camera is just such a #barter, and I really need some decent telecomms technology too! Thanks, Eloïse #vanlife #weaving #theseisles

Red clover on the #machair. I read in my little #HedgerowCookbook that red clover could be lovely and nutritious deep fried in light batter and sprinkled with sugar. I'd add vanilla too. So I bought a 4 litre bottle of organic rapeseed oil (in the absence of sunflower oil). However, the huge red blossoms are now past their best. But at least next time my van stutters to a halt on these steep hills for want of diesel, I'll have some biofuel on board ready. Anyway, er, #weaving... More on that tomorrow. And the tales from the road, as ever, appear here: www.theseisles.co

Red clover on the #machair Inspiration for many a #Hebridean #weaving methinks #theseisles

Harebells. #weaving the #machair of #theseisles

Machair. #weaving #theseisles #rug fresh off the loom...

In the Hebrides, the meadows behind the dunes are sprinkled year-long by the wind with sand. Sand is lime - crushed shells - so this alkalises the rich, dark, peaty, soil that would otherwise be very acidic due to its igneous bedrock. Livestock are kept off the machair in summer, till everything has seeded. I don't actually know whether their dung puts anything into the soil other than that which their grazing takes out (anyone?), but the result is wildflowerscapes that are second to none: the biggest, reddest clover; all sorts of yellows; dwarf harebells; an array of orchids pinks, purples and whites; eyebright, vetch, plantain, self-heal... just the sight is good medicine. So I'm watching boats navigate the islets and weaving a machair rug. #weaving #theseisles

What to do on a dreich Scottish bank holiday beach.

My friend found this for me in the wild west of the Isle of Lewis. Has anyone tried spinning red deer bum fluff?! #spinning and #weaving #theseisles

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