The Weaving Shed Crossbost
We are an independent weavers, working on a single width 85 year old Hattersley, here on the Isle of Lewis. My sister weaves the tweed on my loom, on her 90 year old Hattersley and a wooden glamacra floor loom while I design the tweeds and make everything we sell in the shop. I create clothing, accessories, homeware, bags, gifts and more from our own unique Three Sisters Tweeds and Harris Tweed from local weavers. I also paint original watercolours and artwork on feathers, wood slices and sea glass jewellery. I create other jewellery from seashore finds and our tweeds. We weave a range of luxury fabrics from unusual supersoft yarns including our own gotland sheep fleeces, merino, alpaca and silk, alpaca and rose fiber, islandic and natural undyed british wool. These beautiful fabrics are gorgeously silky, soft and warm, perfect for bringing a touch of Hebridean luxury to your home. We also stock a range of cards from my photographs and artwork, calendars and tweed covered sketchbooks.
Ullkontoret scouring mill
Gotlands Spinneri
Ullkontoret spinning mill
Weaving on our 85 year old Hattersley loom
the full process of setting up the loon ready to weave a tweed plus the weaving!
unrolling reveal of our red sky at night tweed 😍
warping the tweed
How to sew Jetted pockets
creating the warp and weaving a block check tweed
a windy drying day! drying hand dyed yarn in 35mph wind 🫣
hand shearing a gotland sheep using jakoti shears
rounding the sheep up ready for shearing
shearing the sheep!
warping and beaming on our 85 year old hattersley loom
hand dyed yarn!!
trip to the beach for the ponies! midnight gets very excited 😆
creating the yarn and weaving the fabric from start to finish!
tweed bolt unrolling reveal!
mani-pedi day for the sheep!
spinning my own yarn on an Ashford wheel
lambing a sheep - this huge lamb had front legs bent and took some pulling out!
weaving rugs on a wooden glimakra floor loom
knitting a cable scarf without using a cable needle!
the perfect soundtrack to any handmade item! just insert handwoven fabric here!
bespoke coat, tailoring, couture, made to measure
weaving on a 95 year old hattersley loom!
pockets! jetted and welted pockets on a bespoke coat 😍
weaving with our own yarn
setting up the loom!