Egypt Centre, Swansea

Colouring linen, and later wool, red in ancient Egypt seems first to have been done using red ochre. From around 1500 B.C. madder seemed to ...

The picture on the left is the theme for today's blog. Last week, I blogged about the ground looms used by ancient Egyptians. This week ...

I've been practising some very basic weaving, really basic, I'm a beginner, so been thinking what can be possible on a very simple l...

In the last post I looked at making singles of linen for plying. Plying involves twisting two or more single strands of fibre together to ma...

 Way back in summer 2021, I did a post on splicing, you can read it here. Then later the same year I did a series of talks exploring textile...

The Egypt Centre has several small faience vessels made of faience. Unfortunately, we don't have any complete examples of this type, but...

This week I have been largely distracted by socks. I rather like making socks myself, then I saw this lecture by Anne Marie Decker and got ...