Spinning, Dyeing & Weaving a Full Sizes Scottish Wedding Blanket

May 5 - 30, 2025
Four week session - $2000
Enrollment is limited to 5 students
 
The Scottish Wedding Blanket is a traditional piece of a wedding dowry in the Scottish culture and  this was the first design that Norman taught his students to weave back when he started the school in the 1970s.    This class will start with spinning the warp on a great wheel using Vermont made pencil roving and then card and spin the weft on a treadle wheel using local fleece.  We will then dye the stripe yarn with a traditional indigo fermentation vat.  The blanket will then be woven in two panels which will be sewn together to make a full sized blanket and fulled in a traditional  Scottish waulking.