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Panel Presentation at Sheep & Shawl

Ryan Richards of Little Song Farm and Brooks Bend Farm

Larisa Demos speaks about wool processing at Green Mountain Spinnery

Jill Horton Lyons talks about fleece

Custom made yarns Green Mountain Spinnery for Western MA Fibershed

Montague Reporter- Feb 2nd, 2019

Yarns from Green Mountain Spinnery

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Selecting The Patterns

Nur Tiven admiring one of Peggy Harts herringbone patterns

Lisa Bertoldi and Peggy Hart looking at pattern samples in Peggy's studio

Peggy's warp chain for a 16 shaft braided or plaited twill

Peggy fixes some run away pieces

Peggy ran one of her small looms for us while we were visiting

8 shaft herringbone sample woven by Michelle Parrish

Weaving The Cloth

The Crompton & Knowles loom on which our fabric will be woven

Peggy counts to make sure there are 16 threads

Peggy shows Michelle her threading technique

Nur takes a turn at threading the heddles

First yard of cloth

Peggy Harts old weaving equipment is beautiful as well as functional

Finished Cloth

Stack of local cloth - Western MA Fibershed

Stack of local cloth - Western MA Fibershed

Herringbone pattern local cloth - Western MA Fibershed

Braided Twill - Western MA Fibershed

Braided Twill- Western MA Fibershed

Distributing the Cloth

Two piles of uncut yardage

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Anna and Leonore make the first cut

Leonore keeps her focus

OK maybe its not so serious

Gretchen wears her cloth right away

Larisa is dressed for summer

Keeping track of who has what

Katie and Joanne are happy about local cloth

Erin is excited to get her hands on locally produced woolen yardage

Sarah estimates how much wool she needs

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