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25.01.2022 Washed locks and handdyed baby curls.

25.01.2022 Our woollen yarn manufacturing industry is thriving at the moment. Keep it up everyone !

24.01.2022 Limited quantity of fresh fleeces and lock packs available from The Lucky Ewe at Oatlands Tasmania

22.01.2022 Sun glinting on freshly dyed #wansteadparkenglishleicester DK yarn. Love this Tassie wool totally grown and processed in Australia and farmed just up the highw...ay. . . #dkyarn #australiangrownandprocessed #heritagebreedsheep #handdyedtasmania #handdyedbyusforewe #weavingyarn #heritagehighway #oatlandstasmania #handdyedyarn #handdyedyarntasmania #localyarnshop #rarebreedfibre #strongwool #aussieindiedyers See more

22.01.2022 A great example of our heritage breeds' fleece types.

17.01.2022 These colours and more will shortly be available at the Ross Wool Centre. Will be available as 100g yarn cakes.

13.01.2022 Wanstead Park English Leicesters are proud and excited to announce their range of fleece, curls & locks, combed top and DK semi-worsted yarn is now licensed under the Australian Fibre Collective's trademark for totally Australian grown and processed fibre. Available from www.theluckyewe.com.au at Oatlands, Tasmania. Details of the accreditation program at www.theaustralianfibrecollective.org

12.01.2022 To All Australian Textile Artists. I have been selected as the Curator for the next Textiles Triennial in 2020 which I have called Tension(s) 2020. There will ...be a mix of commissioned work and works selected via a call out resulting in a comprehensive survey of Australian Textiles practice. The exhibition will open in Tamworth in 2020 and then tour the country for 3 years. The Call out is NOW OPEN, so please share this far and wide amongst any textile artists you know. EOIs can be found online at https://www.tamworthregionalgallery.com.au/expressions-of-i Curatorial Brief Tension(s) 2020 Performance, Interaction and Material Futures 20/20 Vision is the standard notation used to indicate perfect vision. It bases its declaration of ‘perfect’ on only one thing: sharpness of vision when standing approximately six metres from an eye chart. Meanwhile, other worthwhile attributes are ignored such as peripheral awareness, eye coordination, depth perception, focusing ability and colour vision. The saying ‘hindsight is 20/20’ suggests that the distance afforded by time enables us to better understand the past and that, by extension, hindsight might assist us to make better decisions about our future. But does this reflection take into consideration the diversity of perspectives required to really learn from the past? If there is one thing that hindsight has taught us, it is the danger of drawing meaning from only one perspective. Tension(s) 2020 acknowledges that the world has long been a place under various tension(s), both harmonious and dissonant. In order to bear witness to, contribute to and respond to these tensions, the triennial will focus on the future of people and place through textile as a material and human experience as materiality. By exploring other perspectives through the metaphor of tension, we ask: How could textiles consider people and place in developing new installation ideas? How might textiles collaborate with other interactive mediums to offer new perspectives? How can we articulate complex narratives through engaging textiles in performance? I hope that, through Tension(s) 2020, the materiality of our combined working practices and perspectives can be realised beyond the scope of a rather parochial, one-dimensional, 20/20 view

11.01.2022 https://facebook.com/events/s/the-big-wool-show-17th-20th-ju/801633317035206/?ti=as

05.01.2022 New babies arriving on the second day of spring. . . #englishleicester #heritagebreedsheep #rarebreedsheep #lambspam #leicesterlongwools #sheepiftasmania #englishleicestersheep #wansteadpark

04.01.2022 E N G L I S H * L E I C E S T E R I am very pleased to report the English Leicester or Leicester Longwool has moved from the Vulnerable to Endangered this yea...r with two new flocks being established, making 20 flocks of 516 registered breeding ewes. Looking at these stunning sheep with their gorgeous curly locks it's not hard to see why it is a popular breed with devotees. I asked two of our slightly newer breeders, Jennie and Hannah from Springvale Stud, why they chose the English Leicester to grace their paddocks. Here is their answer: "English Leicesters first arrived in Australia during the early 1800’s in Tasmania and were used in the early colony for wool and meat. I initially had been participating in the Strong Wool Breeder Association Benalla Show’s fibre sections when I first came across them. I spoke to Ethel Stephenson about obtaining a fleece to work with and then decided I had to have them for myself. It was five years before I got some ewes to breed with. A dual purpose breed the English Leicester (Leicester long wool) as known in other parts of the world are well suited to the Northern Victoria climate. Due to our red soils my English Leicesters stand out at shows and people point me out as the lady with the pink sheep! This is not detrimental to their lovely lustrously white fleece. They can be very curious and have a social temperament. The most gorgeous thing about the ewes is how they present there new lambs to us after hiding when born. Look at what I’ve got." Such a beautiful breed and just look at the fleece, shown in the photos on the sheep with one of Colin Taylor's Koenarl English Leicesters, off the sheep with Springvale Stud's bundle of curls and made into a dyed yarn also by Springvale Stud. Please feel free to tag your English Leicester Stud and sheep or fleece photos, below. See more

03.01.2022 English Leicester locks fresh out of the dye pot. Ideal for adding texture with your blending board or in an art batt for spinning. Stunning in felted items. Tail spin for art yarn or create a fine yarn for heirloom pieces.

02.01.2022 Pleased to hear the stud has been rehomed - all of them ! Vale Vic. Let's hope this flock finds a new home. It will be a difficult job relocating them from Queensland.