Making A Raw Wool Rug On A Hand Loom

These great rugs are made by our friend Bridget Tretheway on her Dryad upright handloom. She sources the wool locally and she cards it herself. We visited her recently to chat to her about her work and show how they are made. Even if you are not a home-weaver we hope you can appreciate the skill of the process and the deceptive simplicity of the machine itself. (Definitely a loom goes on the list of things I’d like to make – but that’s already quite a long list!) This is a little out of the ordinary for u