Dr Jennifer Beamer

Expertly Dyed Expertly Dyed sells high quality hand dyed yarn and wool from a professional indie dyer. I cater to spinners, knitters, crocheters, weavers, and felters. Handspun yarn is also available and perfect fo...

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Which picture do you think shows the THINNEST yarn? Picture 1, 2, or 3?

There's a consensus that heavy whorls make thick yarn only. As a craftsperson, I'm very skeptical. My spinning project Spindling for Weaving aims to resolve that question and foreground the skill and expertise of the spinner.

It's pretty interesting so far, but far from finished!

#chalkwhorlspindling #experimentalarchaeology #prehistorictextiles #ironage #archaeology #handspun #spinnersofinstagram #ancienttextiles

I'll be making some new blog posts about this, and a video showing the spindles in action. Be sure to subscribe and get notified! The next video will be coming out in a week or so, and will be another fleece related video!

I've completed my first round of experiments! For those who attended the #festivalofarchaeology at the @coriniummuseum you got a cheeky sneak peek at my results so far. I'll be making a poll soon on Instagram and YouTube, so everyone will have a chance to participate in my research.

YouTube video by ExpertlyDyed Finding Balance with Autism, Illness, and Burnout

Realising I'm autistic is the start of my journey. Understanding its impact on me and my life is the main part of that walk. It's tougher now that I'm older, and dealing with illness and burnout isn't as easy as it used to be.

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Spindling for Weaving: Incorporating intentionality - Corinium Museum Join Dr Jennifer Beamer for a discussion and live demonstration of spindle spinning in our Hare Gallery. Making a yarn is as simple as taking a length of

I'm going to be at the Corinium Museum today! I'll be talking about my experiment, Spindling for Weaving:

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Come by and check it out! I'll be making updates to social media soon. :)

#chalkwhorlspindling

Whoever said you need to use undyed wool for testing replica spindle whorls? Also, air dry clay is great to use if you're inspired by my project.
It's a good balance between price and results!

Now, to do some spinning 🥴

#chalkwhorlspindling #textilestudies

Yeah, I agree, all shipping rates have gone up so much in the last few years. I have absorbed some of the costs when I ship my packages (I think I charge £3.20 but it's more like £3.85 plus my package costs) to keep them attractive. It's difficult to get balance!

Cultivaria Bringing Archaeology to the table.

This looks like an amazing new board game! Calling all archaeologists!

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Devastating news about the Flag Fen roundhouse:

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I'm absolutely chuffed to be sharing my first public progress update of my spindling experiment! Check out my blog on expertlydyed.com 😊😊 Thanks EXARC!

Use the tag #chalkwhorlspindling to help me track discussions about this project!

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Today they have crossed a deep red line.

We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

If you aren't furious, you need to be

Here's a cheeky sneak peek of a current project I'm doing, using replicas I've made from the Danebury assemblage.

Dry, my little beauties!

A small fragment of prehistoric pottery, reworked into a perforated disc, is held between the thumb and forefinger of an archaeologist with a ploughed field, hedge, sky and metal cabin in the background

Jenny's found a sherd of Iron Age pottery, reworked and repurposed as a spindlewhorl (a disc fitted to the end of a spindle to help maintain the spin whilst twiting fibre into thread)

A gorgeous small find which really connects you to the prehistoric past 😍

#Durotriges25

How lovely! We only have one such repurposed from Danebury, but not as nice as this one. 😊😊

I love using *thing* as a placeholder when describing stuff. Super useful. Doesn't matter what it is, I want you to be excited about it.

I'm excited about your blobby thing.

The Later Prehistoric Finds Group Promoting the Study of Bronze Age and Iron Age Finds in Britain and Europe

The Later Prehistoric Finds Group (LPFG) have made the leap over to Bluesky!

Follow us if you are interested in Later Prehistoric Finds!

You can find our website here: laterprehistoricfinds.com

#Archaeology #LaterPrehistory @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

Elon Musk @elonmusk. 4m Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT! 7.8K 11.1K 23.4K 513K

And here we go.......!!!!

I wake up with enough time to have breakfast, coffee, and crafting time. It's a slow project, but it's what I need to not whip myself into a frenzy. I need me time too.

#knitting

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With so much AI, I sometimes feel the need to remind the world that having economic diversity is the result of crafters supporting each other.

I have new stitch markers in my shop (www.expertlydyed.com)! These are handmade by me and unique, and every purchase supports a critical link in the chain of textile production.

Also, this is my favourite colour combo. 😁

#knitting

The sheet torus torcs from Britain: an update. by Tess Machling & Roll Williamson [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] This paper can be cited as: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.10511424 Abstract In our 2018 Proceedi…

From a couple of years ago - my round up of all the sheet gold torus (doughnut shaped terminal) torcs found in Britain so far...

#Archaeology

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Murphy Introduces Legislation to Ban DEI in Medical Schools Washington, D.C.

Republicans can't rewrite the reality that a disparity exists between medical access and knowledge and ethnic and social background. Anthropology is an excellent pre-med degree for a reason.

This is little spoken about, but it needs to be said. Disgusting.

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So, yeah, the sett of my linen towel project is less than ideal, but that's fine because I learned something! I didn't get weighed down by my obsessive planning need, yet I still learned the lesson. I feel more creative now. ☺️

#weaving

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😅😅😅 Uh, it's... going. The sett isn't right, but I'm only 2 inches into the weaving so far. My only weaving experience with linen is with the warp weighted loom, so while I knew that tension would be an issue, I wasn't totally prepared for how odd the workflow would be.

I'm nervously setting up a linen warp on a rigid heddle loom and suddenly wondering if it'll turn out like I think it might 🤔 😅

#weaving

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A woad plant: tall, green stalks with pointed leaves and small yellow flowers.

This is a woad plant, used in Bronze Age Anatolia and the Levant to produce blue-coloured dye by fermenting the leaves.

Cuneiform texts indicate blue fabric was worn by elites, and remains of blue textiles have been found in royal tombs #TextileTuesday 🏺

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