October in the Meadows

October saw the slow re-launch of our website, and the release of our knitwear collection with Corgi, as part of Wool Month. We want to thank all of our customers, both long-standing and newcomers, for your support, patience and custom.

It was a month of natural colour. The talented Ffion Taverner of Hael Natural Colour taught us how to dye our wool with indigo grown in our garden, look out for a limited run of yarn and scarves! We also attended a beautiful exhibition at our local museum by our friends at Makepeace Studio, ‘Botanical Colour - The Redpath Way’. The community art and heritage project pays tribute to the late Margaret and David Redpath, a pioneering couple in the field of natural dyeing and former owners of Wallis Woollen Mill in Pembrokeshire. Celebrating the Redpaths’ remarkable contribution to Wales’ plant dye and textile heritage, the community-led initiative works directly with their archive, recording and recreating over 100 of their original dye recipes, creating a dye garden and teaching in schools. Makepeace Studio and volunteers used our home meadow as a base for workshops and dye practice throughout the summer up until their exhibition.