Water, Cloth & Pins

This weeks reading, besides the tremendous new Robert MacFarlane book, is preparation for writing a proposal for ‘Ghost Mills’, a Walking the Land exhibition for the Wool & Water Festival in September. Did you know that teasels (teazles, teazels) used for knapping the woven cloth? I didn’t but hoping that I can still get atContinue reading “Water, Cloth & Pins”

Perambulations – St. Augustine’s Oak & Well

During my researches about the village I live in, with it’s derelict airfield and Tudor manor house, I became intrigued by Oak Road. This road used to run from the village out to the Castle Eaton road and was severed by a World War II airfield in 1943. The airfield was in use from 1943Continue reading “Perambulations – St. Augustine’s Oak & Well”