Limestone Weld Shawl

Handwoven shawl in a deep grey Shetland wool with natural dyed patterning

This shawl has been handwoven by Jade Ogden in Somerset, using local regeneratively farmed sheep wool from high on the Mendip Hills, less than 10 miles from the loom. Some of the wool has been hand dyed with wild-foraged weld. 

The shawl is fairly lightweight which makes it very easy to wrap around the body in various ways.  

This textile has been slowly handcrafted on a table loom - each of the 236 warp threads has been passed through the heddles, one-by-one, by hand. It is a 'soil-to-soil' textile, due to being crafted from pure natural materials, at the end of its long life it can be returned to nourish the earth via the compost heap.