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@mem_somerville not on the topic of #bobbinlace, but rather on #shetlandlace #spinningfiber #rawwool 🐑🐏#fiberarts and #bbcfilms - I don’t recall if this is the whole film, if I find a better link I’ll update this. Apologies if you’ve already seen this one, just grateful to find other #fiberartistsonmastodon

https://youtu.be/ADU6GzmtZ1s

@mem_somerville have you seen the “Hands” BBC film posts on YT for scouring #rawwool, #cardingfiber, #spinningfiber, and #knitting #shetlandlace ?

Look at the fine tight crimp on this fleece! I left my thumbnail in there for scale on how fine it is. This might be one of the Polypay fleeces. It's been through the #SuintVat, next step is washing with PowerScour.
Not quite #RawWool, as it lost most of the lanolin in the suint vat.

The ongoing #SuintVat saga: Nos. 1, 2, & 3 have been through the vat, rinsed & air-dried. No. 4 is in the vat. Yesterday we got rain (yay! first rain since I started), so I put no.4 in a bucket, drew off and reserved about half of the vat, and dumped what was left.

I rinsed my vat, returned my, ah, starter ?, topped it up with yesterday's rainwater, then put no.4 back. I'mgoing to give it at least one more day, possibly 2, since yesterday and today were both < 65 F.
#RawWool #SuintFermentation

Crimpy crimpy!
#RawWool