wool wool wool (Was: Re: [Regia-NA] Sheep and Wool Festival)

[Robert Woodman]

I know of a group in Australia that imported a lot of icelandic wool and 
they are weaving (using period weave) cloth to make all their viking age 
clothing from.  The patterns they are using they received from a museum in 
Europe and they are sewing the clothes with bone needles.


>Just out of curiosity, what are you using it for?
>
>(I've got several skeins of Wensleydale that were much too loosely spun for 
>card-weaving and ended up making a much-too-lovely cat toy for my in-laws' 
>cat...drat!)
>
>--charlotte mayhew


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