the fabric of dreams

do you know about Harris Tweed?

Harris is an island, one of the Outer Hebrides (also known as the Western Isles), Scotland. . .traditional tweed is hand-woven from wool. . . you can find a little history here, if you're interested. . . tweed isn't just for flat caps and coats. . .

now, I don't know if I've ever told you this, but I love fabrics. . . and I especially love tweeds (check out these really funky ones!). . . and I also love Tana Lawn from Liberty (I'm sure I've told you this before)

I think I have, haven't I? oh well - so lovely, we'll look at some again. . .

(you can even buy Tana Lawn Buttons!)

and this one reminds me of tweed and lichen

but, seeing as it's mid-November, let's stick to the warm woolly stuff. . . look at the colours of these beautiful tweed yarns from Rowan - it looks like tweed, and knits up to create a fabric with those gorgeous tweedy flecks in it
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a little like knitting your own lichen in fact. . .

I could wax on for hours about colour and texture and yarn and fabric, but they are some of those things that have to be experienced to be truly loved
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in the meantime, I'll leave you with this:
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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

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<----- returns to her knitting