Upper Canada Weaving

These throws are inspired by the space devoted to wild uncultivated spaces on their Northumberland County farm.

The blankets are made from the beautiful wool from the Cotswold sheep on the farm. These gorgeous wool comes in a range of colours from dark grey to white.

Every run of blankets reflects the colours from the seasons clip.

A run of Meadow pattern throws for Tamarck Farms on the loom.

For more information about the blankets contact Tamarack.
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#cotswoldwool #cotswoldwoollenweavers #customthrowblanket #northumberlandcountyontario

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These are a set of samples to test fibre, colour, density and weave structure for a Detroit Electric Car.

Using an original swatch, supplied by the customer, I determined the fibre, density and weave structure. The customer wanted an authentic fabric but in a different colour scheme.

After determining the weave structure and fibre, cotton and silk, we explored some digital mock-ups based on the customers preference for a teal green to green range on a brown structure.

Anderson Carriage Company began building electric cars in 1907. In 1920, the name of the company was changed to the Detroit Electric Car Company.

Very excited to be working on reproduction upholstery fabric for a very unique antique car.
@ironcauldron.ca used those mock-ups to begin the process of dyeing the silk in our target range. The next tricky part was to see how the teal range would combine with 3 slightly different brown warps.

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The tartan patterns woven: the Maple Leaf Tartan (Canada), Saskatchewan, North West Territories, Quèbec, Ontario. Thanks for a wonderful day weavers!! I hope everyone is able to continue their weaving journey. The colour combinations selected by the students for their tartan shawls were quite beautiful.

An absolutely lovely group of weaving students at Eweknit today!
In a one day workshop, students learned the weaving fundamentals of treadling twill, throwing and catching a shuttle, keeping good selvedges and following a three colour pattern.

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The Norbouillet wool is a breed type developed by Allison Brown on her Peterborough County farm.

This tweed will be tailored into a woman’s coat. Amazing fibre from our fibreshed @ontariofibreshed

Custom herringbone and windowpane tweed in undyed white and brown with a dyed pink accent by @ironcauldron.ca in Norbouillet wool.

The wool was custom spun at Wellington Fibres, close to Elora, Ontario.
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#norbouilletwool #wellingtonfibres #locallysourcedtextiles #slowfashion

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As with most upholstery fabrics, the smooth floats run longwise not width wise on the seats. Like in the original, we’re using mercerized cotton for the fibre.

In our samples, we used a commercially available colour which didn’t quite match the original swatch.

Using original upholstery swatches, we matched the weave structure which is a colour and weave on a modified plain weave structure.

This current fabric comes from a 1960s DKW Junior car from Germany.
For the final yardage, @ironcauldron.ca matched to perfection the two stripe colours: the bone white and brass yellow.
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#dkwjunior #vintagecarupholstery #antiquecarupholstery #mercerizedcotton #bespoketextiles

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Thanks Liam for coming to my rescue.

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Beauty unto themselves.

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So excited and honoured to be taking part in this important event!!

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Yay!! Thanks Mel for all of your work and vision!!!

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Here Mark is wearing his jacket and cap. Every link in my supply chain supports people doing extraordinary things.

The wool is expertly processed and spun at #wellingtonfibres.

Allison Brown who raises an incredible sheep breed type called #norbouillet makes this undyed tweed fabric possible.

The conclusion to a very joyful project. Purely Ontario tweed fabric made into a utilitarian jacket by Philip Sparks and a flatcap made by Deckel Caps.
Thank you Mark for supporting sustainable textiles, from the farm to garment.
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#ontariotweed #slowfashion #bespoketailoring #flatcap

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Beautiful!

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Haha! That’s not an exaggeration!

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Gutsy farmers are taking on the challenge of re-invigorating the Canadian wool market | CKMS 102.7 FM – Radio Waterloo

Interview with @revolutionwoolco @fieldandfleece and #wellingtonfibres radiowaterloo.ca/gutsy-farmer...

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With amazing exactitude, Liam nails these mid tones for the DKW Junior car upholstery.

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Thank you! So happy to be meeting old friends and make new ones on this independent platform.

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A blanket so cozy that my cat barely gave me a minute to photograph it before she wanted to bond with it.
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#ontariofibreshed

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The fine and lustrous Coopworth wool in this blanket was locally sourced, spun, dyed and woven right here in our Ontario Fibreshed.
These fabulous natural colours by @ironcauldron.ca were foraged from a 1 km radius from where the wool was dyed and woven.

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Yellow, grey and white blanket

Blanket and cat looking out window

My first Blue Sky post is all about the sunshine of summer that grows the plants for natural dyes and pasture for sheep.
Goldenrod yellow and Sumac grey foraged colours turning on the sunshine on this cold and windy January day.

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