LIST OF TRADERS
Each trader has also provided one or more raffle prize. Tickets will be on sale at the event. (Link to details of Raffle Prizes here)Classic Carder
We are a Shropshire family business who create beautifully designed and affordable drumcarders. Our carders can be customised and feature adjustable drums with a choice of three different grades of card cloth. The carders are ideal for fleece preparation and colour blending enabling you to produce batts and rovings. www.classiccarder.co.uk
Don Porritt Looms
I will be bringing the new production folding Tapestry Loom (as illustrated in March issue of Tapestry Weaver) plus LOUET table looms, stainless steel reeds, raddles, stretchers, shuttles and TEXSOLV heddles and cord.
DT Craft & Design
Debbie and Pete will be bringing a selection of their lovely undyed yarns and fibres, natural dye extracts (including Botanical Colors), synthetic dyes including all dyes used on Debbie’s courses, dye kits, Kool Aid, mordants/assistants, equipment, needles, hooks, accessories, books and patterns. Friendly, expert advice always available! www.dtcrafts.co.uk
Fiery Felts
Sells Helen Melvin Dye and Felt books, Helen Melvin Innovative Natural Dye Kits, Helen Melvin's unique Artisan Inks made with plant pigments in 15 different colours and suitable for paper and fabrics, Sea Washed Welsh Slate Buttons, Sheep and Hare Buttons, Natural Dyes. www.fieryfelts.co.uk
FleeceWitch at Alandale
Fleecewitch sells beautiful baby alpaca fleece in various forms; raw, dyed or tops for spinning or felting. Handspun yarns in natural colours. Hand dyed luxury alpaca yarns and knitted and woven fine lace shawls. We also have a range of alpaca/silk and cashmere yarns in natural colours. www.fleecewitch.co.uk
John Arbon Textiles & Fibre Harvest
John Arbon Textiles is a Devon-based yarn and textile producer with a small-scale, specialist, worsted spinning & processing Mill – specialising in making fine quality hand knit yarns, fibres and tops, plus a range of luxury socks … using fibres sourced in the UK, if not locally, wherever possible. www.jarbon.com
The John Dunsmore Nepalese Textile Trust
The Trust supports weavers, knitters and embroiderers who live in remote areas of Nepal. To fund our work we will be selling handwoven tablecloths, mats, handtowels, knitted scarves and shawls made from the Himalayan giant nettle together with embroideries created by women from our most recent project in Santang. www.nepalesenettle.org
The Journal for Weavers Spinners and Dyers
We look forward to meeting our readers at the Trade Fair. Please call by to say hello and share your views.We will be bringing along copies of the Peter Collingwood Special Edition and a selection of Journals from our back catalogue - all on special offer www.thejournalforwsd.org.uk
Hedgehog Equipment
'Hedgehog Equipment manufactures and retails a range of carding, spinning and weaving equipment. We are agents for Majacraft, Louet and Glimakra and sell fleeces and prepared fibre blends ready for handspinning and felting, including some from our organic Badger Face Welsh Mountain and Hill Radnor sheep. We plan to bring a representative sample of our stock to the trade fair, including wheels for customers to try out. www.hedgehog-equipment.co.uk
Hilltop Cloud
Specialises in beautiful fibre you’ll love to work with, from Superfine Shetland direct from the Shetland islands, to the best quality Silk Brick you can find. I dye it, then sell it you, and love seeing the wonderful things you create. www.hilltopcloud.co.uk
IST Crafts
Professional quality tools for fibre crafts: drop spindle, turkish spindles, Russian spindles, Tibetan spindles and Tahkli. Bowls, Nostapines, thread counter, Dizes and other associated tools. Also a few wooden buttons. www.thewoodemporium.co.uk
Michael Williams
Superb quality handmade wooden articles for textile crafts including... .. drop spindles, inkle looms, marudais, nostepinnes, niddynoddies, tapestry frames + bobbins, couronne sticks, skein winders , naalbinding, tablets, diz. www.michael-williams-wood.co.uk
My Fine Weaving Yarn
Will be bringing a selection of repeatable yarns suitable for all types of weaving as well as other yarn crafts in a variety of fibres and counts. We stock over 100 colours of Mercerised Cotton in 3/2, 5/2, 10/2 and 20/2 counts as well as yarns made from Wool, Silk, Tencel and Bamboo amongst others. www.myfineweavingyarn.co.uk
The Old Bookshop
I supply second hand, out of print and new books on costume, fashion, lace, knitting, weaving, embroidery, beading and textiles. Over 20,000 volumes can be viewed at my shop but please phone before coming to see me. I will be bringing a good selection of books with me - these will mostly be from the craft and textiles elements of my stock http://fjwarnes.co.uk/
SAORI Weaving UK
We are the three registered SAORI studios and authorised SAORI dealers in the UK.
We have looms, equipment, ready-made warps, yarns, books and products. Some to buy on the day, others to order. We can answer all your SAORI questions. Be inspired! Try SAORI for yourselves. www.saorimor.co.uk www.thesaorished.co.uk www.waywardweaves.co.uk
Stitchwort Handmade
We will be bringing a selection of beautiful porcelain and wooden buttons and yarn-bowls which we make in our small workshop.
Textile Designs by Sarah Cage
I am a small-scale dyer and textile artist. I will be bringing one-off skeins for adding interest to weaving and embroidery, as well as my range of textile jewellery, scarves woven on a scarf loom, and other examples of my textile art.
Textile Traders
Diane and Jim of Textile Traders in Shropshire will be selling lots of lovely hand-made textiles collected by them from villages and workshops around Asia. They will also be bringing a rail full of unusual and one off garments made from recycled traditional textiles. www.textiletraders.co.uk
The Threshing Barn
An Aladdin's cave of craft supplies for weavers ,spinners ,dyers ,felt makers ,knitters and textile artists. New equipment will include the concept wheel from Louet their folding Jane loom, chain driven drum carders from Strauch as well as their beautiful ball winders and swifts, the Glimakra Emilia rigid heddle looms etc http://www.threshingbarn.com
Uppingham Yarns
Uppingham Yarns specialise in yarns in many colours and types. We will be bringing along our stock lines, Lambswool, Shetland, Silk, to name a few; our technical yarns, which have various uses; and other interesting products. Online shop - www.wools.co.uk, Will bring along requests if required.
weaversbazaar
Offers high quality worsted wool yarn in various weights and a wide range of colours making them attractive for use in tapestry weaving and many other textile activities. In addition we offer dyed or undyed nettle yarn and various warp yarns as well as tapestry weaving equipment and kits. http://www.weaversbazaar.com
NOTE FOR TRADERS:
You can contact the Trade Fair team at agwsdss15traders@gmail.com
We would also be delighted to discuss opportunities to sponsor activities at the summer school. Please get in touch with WSDSS15@gmail.com if you would like to know more.
