Star of the Show

Monty Don presents a new BBC 2 series 'Mastercrafts', celebrating the nation's craftsmanship and the recent renaissance in traditional crafts. The series kicks off on 12th February 2010 at 9pm and amongst the 6 episodes can be seen Margo Selby, Weaver and Woven Textile Designer.

Margo contacted us to see if we could get hold of three 8 shaft Schacht Mighty Wolf looms for use in the filming. We were able to oblige and look forward to seeing the episode in which they are featured.

Take a look at these special looms at www.fibrecrafts.com

Another Celebration!

Schacht have brought out a special limited edition of the 8 Shaft Baby Wolf in walnut wood and the Matchless Spinning Wheel in cherry wood to mark their 40th Anniversary.

They're also running a competition 'I made it on my Schacht' (see more, the web site will open in a separate window).

Let us know if you enter the contest as we would love to see what you have created and we will add a link from the Fibrecrafts blog site, Textiles Talk

Louët Celebrate 35 years of trading!

To mark their anniversary, Louët are offering a FREE loom bench when you order any of the following Louët looms: David*, Spring*, Delta*, Magic Dobby, Octado* and Megado or a FREE skeinwinder when you order any of the following spinning wheels: S10*, S51DT*, S75DT* and S15*

The offer applies to any order (for the products specified above) placed through Fibrecrafts. The items marked * are available to special order from FIBRECRAFTS, as are any of the Louët products. Please ring 01483 565800 or email us for further information.

If you would like to know a little more about the history of these quality weaving and spinning products, visit the Louet web site and click on the link 'History' (the page will open in a separate window).

Supplies Visit!

We welcomed Managing Director Richard Ashford and Sales Manager Kate Sherrat during their visit from Ashford, New Zealand in April. The team here at Fibrecrafts enjoyed putting the names to faces before our visitors, along with David Herring (Ashford UK), were taken for a tour of the warehouse by our Managing Director, Ian Bowers.



Photographed here by Richard; David, Ian and Kate are about to take a look at the Ashford spinning and weaving products stored in the warehouse, having just seen the range of equipment on display in our showroom.