Lea Wild Creative

Lea Wild Creative

@leaandelfie.bsky.social

Lea and Elfie, Wales UK - We love heritage crafts and living history. Weaving, handspinning, distaff spindle spinning flax, wool, wood craft, sewing, embroidery, crochet, knitting, net making, art journals, basket making. We keep a flock of Shetland sheep.

170 Followers 23 Following 84 Posts Joined Jan 2025
1 month ago
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Bobbins that I've hand painted, and wrapped with hand dyed yarns and handspun yarns #handspunyarn #handdyedyarn #bobbins

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7 months ago
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Tablet weaving at Tewkesbury Medieval Festival #tabletweaving #historiccrafts #medieval

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8 months ago
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Backstrap weaving plant dyed tablet woven bands, for living history with reenactment groups. These ones are distaff ribbons, headbands, backpack straps, and belt. #tabletweaving #weaving #ancientcrafts #livinghistory #ancestralcraft

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9 months ago
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A piece of handwoven cloth on the rigid heddle loom #weaving #loom #handwoven

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9 months ago

Thank you

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9 months ago
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Backstrap tablet weaving straps for my backpack for medieval, iron age, and Saxon living history #tabletweaving #weaving #reenactor

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9 months ago
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A tiny thread bag, slow stitched from plant dyed fabrics and silk, linen, and cotton hand dyed threads #slowstitching #slowstitched #plantdyed

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9 months ago
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Hand painted wooden bobbins with hand spun miniature art yarns #artyarn #handspun #bobbins

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9 months ago
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Some art silks I've been spinning on the traveller wheel #handspunyarn #handspun #spinningwheel

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9 months ago

Thank you!

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9 months ago
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At Butser Ancient Farm doing living history #livinghistory #ironage #reenactors

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10 months ago
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I've hand carved and embellished another collection of weaving/nalbinding needles and knitting needles (they're on Lea Wild Creative) #weaving #knitting #nalbinding

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10 months ago
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Spinning linen sewing thread in the roundhouse at the Ancient Technology Center for the pre history weekend #ironage #livinghistory #handspinning

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11 months ago

Thank you!

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11 months ago

Thank you so much! Happy weaving πŸ₯°

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11 months ago

Thank you! It's lovely!

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11 months ago

Thanks so much!

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11 months ago

Thank you very much!

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11 months ago
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Elfin started working on this fishing net in the roundhouse at the Ancient Technology Center last weekend at the pre history event. We were there doing iron age living history with The Vicus #ironage #livinghistory #reenactors

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11 months ago
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Pure wool cloth that I've handwoven on the 8 shaft loom #weaving #handweaving #weaver

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1 year ago
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I recently finished weaving a blanket wrap, it's gone to Pennsylvania now, but here's a few photos of it before I posted it, along with Daisy and Hazel who are two of my little flock of Shetland sheep. #handwoven #weaving

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1 year ago
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We went to the Shrewsbury Museum to do medieval living history with the medieval reenactment group we are part of. We did medieval crafts and games. Photos taken by Mila. #medievalcraft #livinghistory #medievalreenactment

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1 year ago

Thank you very much!

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1 year ago
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These are a couple of the handwoven folk belts I've made, they look so pretty over a dress. #handwoven #woven

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1 year ago

Brilliant. Cheers!

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1 year ago

Thank you, it was a lovely day!
Fantastic, have a great time today!

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1 year ago
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Yesterday we worked at the Shrewsbury museum with the medieval reenactment group we are part of, The Corbet Household. Here's a couple of photos of one of the medieval games tables. Elfin and Mila are playing swords and shields, and Adam and Tom are playing farkle. #medievalhistory #livinghistory

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1 year ago

Thank you very much! πŸ’—

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1 year ago
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Elfin at work on the factory floor of the Newtown Textile Museum, a Welsh flannel factory #weavingloom #spinningwheel #livinghistory

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1 year ago
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A table runner, woven by hand on rigid heddle loom #handweaving #weaving

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