Ecoferme Élevage d'animaux de ferme et compagnie / d'ornement en France

Rustic Rose Garments

from field to finished garment

All Rustic Rose Garments are home -made by our selves. From animal to finished woollen. Rosemary does the care taking of the fibre animals and the sorting, cleaning and spinning of the fiber. All the yarn is spun on a foot treddled traditional spinning wheel. The fibre is chosen and spun to the thickeness suitable for the desired garment. Michele is the knitter & crochet , having the ability to modify all pattern to suit hand-spun yarn and the make up of her own patterns.

We both work together to fashion each finished garment with natural add ons , feathers, horn, antler and fur making each garment unique.

Hand Sorting

ll of our wool is hand cleaned to remove the straw, debris and short pieces of wool from the fibre. The best pieces of fibre are then selected and brushed with a pair of hand carders, with the exception of sheep wool, which is spun raw. It takes about 4 hours to brush 50g of wool, that’s 80 hours per kilo. Brushing makes the wool fluffy, free from knots and ready for spinning.

Hand spun Yarn

and spinning is a traditional craft not often seen these days. Originally wool was spun on a drop spindle and later, on a spinning wheel allowing the spinning to be done a little faster.

A single strand of yarn is rarely used as it comes off the spinning wheel, except for the purpose of weaving. For the knitting of jumpers and other garments it is usual to ply 2 or 3 yarns together. To do this, the bobbins of wool are put on a bobbin holder; the 2 ends of the yarns are tied onto the bobbin of the spinning wheel, which is then turned in the opposite direction to which it was spun.

To spin a 50g 2 ply ball of wool takes 2 hours (40 hours to do a kilo).

Hand knitting

All our garments are hand-knitted on bamboo neddles or hand- crocheted.
The imagination and style of the knitter is captured in each and every jumper making each one unique.

Knitting takes ¾ hour per 50g ball of wool but it can take longer depending of the detail put into the jumper.

We do Spinning & Knitting demonstrations

for local fetes on demande.

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Spinning Courses

We are now offering spinning course. From February to march 2010 in gironde and in Brittany.
course are for 1-3 people, so extra care can be taken with each student.

This course is for beginners, you will learn how to spin wool on a spinning wheel.

I will explain/show you how to
prepare different fibers,
to regulate a wheel,
spin wool
to ply two bobbins of wool together
wind the yarn onto a niddy noddy it order for it to be washed

possibility of visiting our angora goats, llamas and sheep,

how long it will take you to learn how to spin, depends on each individual person, some people who have artistic hands can learn in 1-2day, through others may need 3-5days to learn and practice. As we sell spinning wheels there is the possibility of buying the wheel you have learnt to spin on.

Course from 13hrs to 17hrs per day
Price is 40€ the day (4hours) including refreshments
B&B 45€ per night (discount available for multiple days)
Dinners 5€ (you eat with us)

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