Jackie went home yesterday with her freshly-fulled cloth, ready to hem into a beautiful new blanket.

There's still room in our June Foundations classes if you'd like to go home with your very own heirloom (and a new set of skills)! newburyschoolofweaving.org/programs

Our May newsletter is out now where we recap the first week of Fleece to Fulling and more! Read it here https://conta.cc/3YZYzWw, and visit our website to subscribe.

Shearing day for Fleece to Fulling with Mary Lake! We got a crash course in shepherding, shearing, and skirting a small flock, the fleece of which will become the weft in our participant’s blankets. Fiber is farming, and today’s work will ground our blankets down to the land they came from.

Our Golden Anniversary year has begun and the Fleece to Fulling great wheels are humming on the porch! The goal for our spinners today is 800 yards, roughly half a pound of wool. Give them a big round of encouragement as they embark on their monumental projects!

#spinning #spinningwheel #wool

Tomorrow the school will open for the 2025 season, marking fifty years from our founding by Norman Kennedy in 1975. Our year begins with Fleece to Fulling, a month-long intensive program where participants will make blankets from shearing to fulling the cloth.

#localwool #woolcarding #woolspinning

Our new Instructor and Office Clerk Emma has been hard at work preparing the chapel for Monday’s kick off of the 2025 season. Today she turned her attention to practicing tying on a new warp to an old one, a skill we don’t often get a chance to teach.

#weaving #handweaving #learntoweave

For the first time in our fifty-year history we have a Strategic Plan! This is a critical step for us as we embark on the next fifty years, and we invite you to support us on the journey ahead. The map is before us, we hope you'll join us on the adventure!

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We’re so grateful to neighbor Jane Booth for gifting us a book of early photos of our Methodist chapel home. You can see the original steeple, door surrounds, and Newbury Seminary in this 1860s image.

#1860s #newengland #vermont #newburyvt

New Foundations project, who dis? Featuring the gorgeous yarns of @harrisvilledesigns.

Our first guest of 2025: FIGGY! Who will visit us next?

Our worsted sample in the breeze!

#handweaving #handwoven #worsted #localwool #localfiber #bunting

This is just a teaser of a very exciting project we can’t wait to tell you more about soon. For now, what we can tell you is that Nobletown Fiber Works has been hard at work to produce a very special custom yarn for us, and the first sample arrived today! (16/1 worsted, if you were curious.)

Our April news is hitting your inbox, subscribe or read it here: https://conta.cc/4hV9Hus. Programs start in less than a month and we’re welcoming fresh faces all around.

Our first class starts a month from tomorrow! Our calendar is more packed than ever before, be sure to check out this year’s programs and register your place while there’s room.

#weaving #learntoweave #weavingschool #loom

Spring has sprung, and so have our Georgia Sea Island brown cotton seedlings. Cotton has been at the center of some of humanity’s brightest and darkest chapters, and we hope these plants will help us to better appreciate its past, present, and future.

#cotton #textilehistory #fiber #fibertofashion

Here’s a little preview of our upcoming Harrisville Designs yarn Foundations projects. We can’t wait to weave up the samples when the weather warms up a bit.

#weaving #handweaving #learntoweave

A new teaching season is almost here, and with it is a new yarn supplier and new projects! This year we’re bringing Harrisville Design’s woolen spun yarns to Newbury, and are working on some new Foundations projects with their stunning range of colors.

#weaving #handweaving #learntoweave

We are a hard to categorize organization. Craft school is one way to describe us, but we’re a museum of sorts as well.

#clockreel #reel #yarnwinder

Our February newsletter is hitting your inbox if you're subscribed (you should subscribe). Lots of big announcements in this one:

We're hiring!
We have a new youth program!
We have scholarships!
We have two special weekend sessions of Foundations!

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