A 7-Day Ancestral Wool Working Course
At COTWild
Dates: Sunday 2nd – Sunday 9th November 2025
Cost: £895 Including Camping, Fully Catered
Places: 12 available
Bookable directly through Wilderness Folk School: www.folkschool.uk/ancestral-wool-craft-course
Discover and experience an indulgent, bespoke series of traditional workshops which have, at their core, the skills of working with wool.
Wool tells a long and old story, it has made an unbroken and quiet journey through the light and dark ages of time. A journey wherein knowledge of how to work wool has been passed on from generation to generation.
Each day, over the course of this unique 7-day course, you will be immersed in a range of skills which can be accomplished with wool. Every workshop will bring with it new learning and challenges as we unravel the depth and breadth of wool-craft.
During the week, you will of course make beautiful things to take home, however these workshops are not just about the beautiful things you will craft, or the unfolding talents of your hands. We will follow wool in its yarn, in language and story, in layers of insight and connection.
What You Will Learn On This Course:
The different kinds of wool from Scottish rare breed sheep
How to prepare, clean, wash and dry your fleece
Carding, combing and preparing wool fibres
Making your own lichen fermentation dye pot
Dying wool with fermented lichens
Dying wool with wild plants
The difference between ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ felting.
Making a ‘Dream Bundle’.
Making yarn using a primitive drop spindle
Twisting and plying yarn
Felting a natural Viking cape.
Felting a hat or pair of boots with seams or sewing
Needle-felt your own forest animal sculpture
Miniature weaving in a shell or branch
Weaving a rug or sit mat on a Peg Loom.
For further details and booking go to www.folkschool.uk/ancestral-wool-craft-course
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