NORTH PENNINES WOOL EVENT 2011

North Pennines Centre
Lanehead
Upper Weardale
DL13 1AJ

The centre is the Victorian school at Lanehead, on the A689 Stanhope - Alston road, about a mile from Killhope Leadmining Museum.

Off-road parking

Regular bus service along Weardale (service 101)
 Lanehead is a request stop.
http://weardale-travel.co.uk/ i ndex.php?page=local-services

Connecting bus service to Durham (service 46/46a)
http://www.arrivabus.co.uk/ serviceInformation.aspx?id= 2795

Connecting rail link to Stanhope
http://www.weardale-railway. org.uk/Timesmain.htm

Following the success of last year's event, we are hosting another Wool Event celebrating British Wool at the North Pennines Centre, Lanehead, in Upper Weardale.

FRI 7 & SAT 8 OCT 2011
11am - 4pm

An event for farmers, spinners, felters,  knitters, weavers and wearers of British wool

Entry fee: Voluntary donation

Refreshments available throughout the day
by award-winning
The Moody Baker

North Pennines Wool Stall, selling:

• peg looms, lucets, weaving sticks – Chris Jones
• drop spindles – Enid Scurfield
• sheep cards and stationery – Alex Clark
• fibres and yarns
• woven goods – Marjorie Sparks
• knitting needles etc – Lynne Dent, Woollyback
• sheep & North Pennines greetings cards – Jules Cadie

Individual stallholders to include :

Friday:

• Halifax Spinning Mill
• Eden Gotlands
• Natural Born Dyers
• Black Bat Sheepskins
• Moondance Wools

Saturday:

• Natural Born Dyers
• North West Wools
• Halifax Spinning Mill
• Moondance Wools
• Eden Gotlands

Demonstrations and other events*:

Friday 7 October :
    11am – 4pm
            Natural plant dyeing Textiles Through Time
    11am – noon
            Weaving Tynedale Guild
    2pm - 3pm
            Big Wheel Spinning Carol Hinchcliffe
    3pm
           Gansey competition prize, presented by Pat Glass, MP

Saturday 8 October:
   11am - noon
             fleece demonstrating - Stephen Kitson, BWMB
     1pm – 2pm
             drop spindling – Ruth Hicken
    1.30pm – 2.30pm
           Peg Loom weaving Ellie Langley
     2pm – 3pm
              luceting – Ruth Hicken
     3pm – 4pm
              big wheel spinning
Daily:
   11am – 4pm
              Flock project 
    Noon – 1pm,
           Auction of local fleeces to include Shetlands, Wensleydales, Ryelands           (Saturday), Manx Loaghtans, Hebrideans, Manx & North            Ronaldsays (Saturday), Teeswaters

In association with Killhope, North East of England  Lead Mining Museum
    11am – 4pm
           Spinning circle in the Yurt at Killhope (approx 1mile from Lanehead)

Raffle, with prizes including Wool Batts, Carded Wensleydale, a Gotland parcel &             a Dog Training Session.

* Please note, this is a provisional list and may be subject to  change.

Contact Ellie on 01388 537292 for more details