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Workshop Brochure About us Growers and processors Course & Workshops of flax fibre to artisan www.flaxland.co.uk and craft markets. Flax seed for growing 3 sq metre Natural plant fibre Makers of hand flax and baste instructions £5 inc pp 10 sq metre £9.25 inc pp fibre process tools. in the Stroud Valleys and Cotswolds Flax fibre straw stooks dried and Builds of fabric covered small crafts. Educators, retted £16 +pp suppliers, promoters of UK and European plant fibres. Cotswold long line flax stricks for spinning £20 per 100gms + pp Based on a lifetime of farming, we established Dutch scutched fibre £45 per kg +PP flaxland in 2008 - attend and exhibit at country Dutched flax strick £12 per 100gm +pp shows, maritime events, presentations and talks. Teach groups and individuals how to grow and make linen cloth from flax. Assist community based pro- jects, teachers and researchers. Provide set making Get started processing Flax ,Hemp or Nettle with basic tools. materials, photographic work media and live displays. Breaking, scutching –hackling TV work includes BBC Countryfile Wartime Farm, hand block £7.50 Tudor Abbey Farm, Inside Out. Appearances in life Metal comb £8.40 style publications. Drop spindle £7.50 Twine twisters £7.50 Based in the Cotswolds in the textile town of Stroud our heated workshop and outside covered areas allow all year working. On the Based on traditional cottage industry tools compact and efficient banks of the river Frome One unit breaks, scutching and hackling folding trestle easily next to Ham Mill and the transportable, complete unit with scutching knife, stook and fibre, instructions £395 + pp Cotswold canal a mix of Break and scutching board oak £185 new industrial heritage Hackling unit £75 Tresell pine £85 town and rural life. Hackling unit £75 Scutching knife £25 all + pp Accommodation for courses, with a single and double room, walking distance from Stroud station via canal towpath or road. Parking and bicycle stor- age, evening meals possible. Use of sitting room with library of flax and textile books, films to study. Good walks and work- shop at the end of the garden. Canoes & Souchez, Ham Mill Lane, London Road Engraved eco signage in Flax is a crop that transcends time - grown in Britain since Thrupp, Stroud, Glos. GL5 2BA English and the bronze age, it is set for a renaissance as we seek to recycled pine [email protected] reduce the levels of plastic used and wasted into the with flax oil environment. preservatives [email protected] A great opportunity for artists, dreamers, growers, textile also available and craft workers, boaters, researchers, re-enactors, all Simon 07815 967951 please enquire. those that care, to discover more about a forgotten crop - its Ann 07768 405520 uses, its future. 2 Day course Our courses are designed for those new to the world of textiles as well as those who have experience in Covering all aspects of flax growing, processing and spinning suits beginners or those wishing to gain more experience - a working other fibres. combination of the one day courses with the aim that you will go away able to use your own grown to spin long line flax Discover Britain's Forgotten Crop - one day fibres on a wheel. There will be a combination of instruction and free time to course. get on with it on your own. 9.30-4.00pm we then run on Our base course and most popular, with lots of hands on informally until 9 pm on day one where you can carry on activity, is an introduction to the flax, its history, uses and spinning as you choose, take a walk to the local organic future. You will learn how to grow, ret and process flax brewery for a beer, coffee or pizza. Or choose from a range of into yarn ready for weaving, knitting, crochet, twine or activities, padddling a flax coracle or canoe, flax bread rope making. making, linocut printing, rope making, or making a flax resin fabric plate through vacuum infusion. Using hand tools learning the art of breaking, scutching and hackling flax, dressing a distaff with long fibres. Individual rate £160 Introduction to spinning on a drop spindle. Using shorter 2 people booking together £300 fibres to create twine. The uses of flax seed. In season trip 3 people booking together £420 to flax fields. 4 people booking together £500 The course is ideal for those wanting to grow flax in their Accommodation plenty locally we can recommend or we own gardens as well individuals or groups seeking to set offer air type BnB to course goers at £40 per person per up fibre based projects of their own. Processing hemp and night £ 30 per additional night nettles are worked in the same way. 10.00 am - 3—4 pm group size 1-6 - larger groups please contact to discuss. £80 per person inc materials. In days of future past experience Flax Spinning one day course This as much a unique day as a course which only we can This is intended for those who have been on the base provide—looking at the past and learning of a sustainable course or textile workers experienced with other textiles future. A water and land based event using a collection of fabric covered boats, coracles, flax canoes kayaks, Irish seeking further experience with flax. The aim of the course curragh, and 1910 salmon punt, representing small inland and is that participants will beome confident in flax spinning on sea craft which mankind has used since the earliest of times. a wheel. You will find out how natural materials were harvested and You will learn final hackling for long line spinning, dressing used by your ancestors. a distaff, flax spinning on a treadle wheel, preparing flax You’ll be shown how to use the boats, then take a trip on the tow and spinning. Identify twist direction, understand yarn Stroud canal to our local organic brewery for lunch. count (thickness). 10-5pm £85 per person includes Ideally suited to couples or small groups, makes a brilliant present, you can pick and choose your watercraft or you Materials. Group size 1-4 might like to be ferried in the punt or watch and walk on the adjacent tow path. Flax seed and oils bio composites £150 individuals 2 people £250 Family/group of 4 £400 Flax seed and oil course - the many uses of flax, milling flaxseed, A reasonable level of agility is required for the coracles and find out how oil is crushed, nutrition and flax bread making. Lino canoes, buoyancy aids are to be worn. Bring spare clothes cuts and bio-composite hands on workshop. 10-4 pm £90 per (we don't expect anyone to fall in— no swimming). person. Coracle building course Building your own coracle, steamed ash frames with tarred bitumen covered canvas, safe use of coracles. 2 day course. £280 per coracle Flax resin /fabric canoe 2 day course . £375 per person Contact/view on web for more details. .
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