Rosie Hyde on Workshops

Rosie Hyde on Workshops

Jung-Ah Kim

Rosie Hyde

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The first workshop I did with the guild, that I was a attendee at was a drop spindle workshop. And it was in the home of the person who was presenting the workshop. And she had different spinning wheels around. But she showed us how to use a drop spindle, which is one of the earliest ways of twisting fibre. And it's interesting to have the very tactile experience of using drop spindle, and also to be with a group of people and quite diverse group of people who are all for whatever reason, they wanted to learn how to do this. And we had different varying levels of success. So that was the first workshop that I attended. And then I attended one just a few years ago, which was the lace workshop, the woven lace workshop. And we did that one in the studio, we were back in the Tett Centre at that time. And again, a diverse group of people and all of us approaching and interpreting the materials a little bit differently, and having different levels of efficiency for sure, I might have been the slowest. So I really enjoyed that. And again, I like the feeling of the, it's a very with leaving, it's a very different feeling. And when you're weaving it, it's everything's tight, and kind of solid, and then you finish weaving and you take it off the loom and, and it just seems to kind of crumble into just like almost like a little ball. And then you finish it, wet finish it and iron it. And it comes back to having that bit of that structure. So I find that a neat experience, especially with something that's lacy and has lots of holes in it. It forms this framework for what's behind it with all these little holes. So that was the lace weaving workshop. And then I also attended a spinning wheel spinning workshop, because I don't really have, didn't have any background in spinning. And I found that just great workshop. It's such a tactile sensation of holding the fibre supply and feeling the spinning wheel pulling on it and just trying to balance the power between your foot and your hands. That's a neat thing to do. And it was also interesting to see people were using several different kinds of spinning wheels. That was educational, too.