Woven In The Bone

Woven In The Bone Artisan cloth made in Scotland. Bespoke lengths and limited edition production of handcrafted Saxony cloth for tailors, designers and small businesses.

That chocolate weft yarn with the blue haze could make an amazing cloth on its own! With the sky blue and amber warp, in...
02/06/2026

That chocolate weft yarn with the blue haze could make an amazing cloth on its own! With the sky blue and amber warp, in the smooth worsted spun warp there’s a lovely shimmer to the cloth, further enhanced by the play of light on the interchanging direction of the twills. I’m really delighted with the balance between all the elements.

It feels like a painting, a piece of art.

A very special cloth in Ouessant wool for . Spun by
DM me for enquiries.

How lovely is this truly unique cloth! It’s the result of two years of development, growing and collecting fleeces from ...
02/06/2026

How lovely is this truly unique cloth! It’s the result of two years of development, growing and collecting fleeces from the small Ouessant sheep of the flock in Cumbria, lots of cloth sampling and colour work for the design by , and complex and precise sorting, dyeing, blending and spinning by Kate at .

Such a lovely project to be involved in, and Im grateful to Rick at Danaway for his passion, vision and commitment to his flock of little sheep, and his desire to demonstrate their potential. I know Rick has plans for prototyping some garments for future development but may be interested in selling some cloth. DM myself for Ricks contact details.

“Danaway” cloth is 100% Ouessant wool, and the weight is equivalent to 700g/lin metre at 150cm wide.

31/05/2026

The very first picks of a cloth that’s been in discussion, costing, development, growing, grazing, shearing, sorting, scouring, dyeing and various stages of design and testing in yarn, colour and weave for nearly two years.

The yarn arrives and after a couple days preparatory processes to get it to this point and time to start pedalling.

Right away you know… it’s beautiful.

31/05/2026

Tie knots. Try and keep a relatively consistent tension. Take breaks to stretch. Repeat.

Making for in their own Ouessant wool using a custom designed yarn in collaboration with

30/05/2026

Beaming off the amazing colour blended worsted yarn by that will be the warp for the totally unique cloth I’m making for from their own rare breed Ouessant flock.

Larger cones, supplied by are split into smaller packages on the drum cheesewinder, for loading onto the creel. The yar...
30/05/2026

Larger cones, supplied by are split into smaller packages on the drum cheesewinder, for loading onto the creel. The yarn from each package is drawn off and wound in sections around the large drum of the warping mill. Once the full width of the warp is complete… all the sections are wound off simultaneously onto the beam.

28/05/2026

Here’s the Ouessant wool yarn being wound into smaller packages in preparation for warping.

Wool by
Yarn by
Winding by

Now is it just me, but is that not a thing of beauty?Years of careful and attention to a flock of animals to breed for a...
28/05/2026

Now is it just me, but is that not a thing of beauty?

Years of careful and attention to a flock of animals to breed for a soft wool fibre that comes in a range of natural colours. Skilful sorting to showcase the natural chocolate and caramel colours of the fleece, with selective dyeing and blending to create two yarns, each with their own character but wonderfully complementary for the cloth to come.

All credit to Rick for producing such a wonderful natural, renewable resource and Kate at for working so sensitively and creatively with the fleeces.

It’s not often I have input on the design of a yarn…. that’s a WHOLE other skillset and bank of knowledge and experience...
27/05/2026

It’s not often I have input on the design of a yarn…. that’s a WHOLE other skillset and bank of knowledge and experience I do NOT possess. But the chance to work closely with the amazing can-do attitude of Kate at The Border Mill was a big was just too intriguing to miss. With Kate’s skilful sorting we had seven distinct colours of naturally coloured wool and a brief for a multicoloured cloth that would showcase a combination of natural and dyed wool.
I’m not sure who was more nervous…. Rick the client, or me! But with Kate’s enthusiasm and guidance, many Zoom meets regarding counts and colours, grams and twists, and Kate’s skills in dyeing and blending to bring my coloured bundles of fluff to life, we ended up with two beautiful and truly unique yarns (see next post… as they deserve a post of their own!)

Thank you for your bravery Rick and Kate for your vision, skills and patience with my desire to dive into those bags of wool and fully embrace the process! It was such fun!

I’d never heard of Ouessant sheep till Feb 2024 when a gentleman sent me an email titled “10 years of breeding for wool ...
27/05/2026

I’d never heard of Ouessant sheep till Feb 2024 when a gentleman sent me an email titled “10 years of breeding for wool quality”.
Therein he described inheriting a flock of Ouessant, now located in Cumbria and how he was keen to promote the breed. Having never heard of the breed, I was interested to learn a little about them. Said to be the smallest naturally occurring breed in the world, they originated from the island of Ouessant off the coast of France where they were bred to be hardy, easy to manage and for their wool. They are categorised as a North European short-tailed breed, along with other primitive breeds such as our native Shetland, Soay, Hebridean and Boreray.

Interested to see where this might lead?…..yes, I was too.

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