Lark & Bower

06/09/2026

I absolutely loved making this one, exploring what happens to the pattern when colour and stripes come into play. Again, just a twill!

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06/09/2026

Big day!

Today four boxes full of my long awaited book arrived!

These will be available via my webshop as signed copies as of release day, which is 24th September 😁

I'm hoping Wilbur will let me make a video later today so that I can show you some more of the contents 🙏🏼 because besides the how-to projects there are also chapters about community, the humanness of making things, the value of time spent crafting, and an ode to unfinished projects.

These are all topics that are close to my heart and I'm so glad to have an opportunity to share them, alongside my woven work.

Thank you so much to everyone who has already pre-ordered a copy via Bloomsbury or other online outlets ❤️

03/09/2026

Among Friends, 2025, Weardale

03/09/2026

Process captured by Jessica Man 🙏🏼🥰

03/09/2026

I'm very much looking forward to experimenting with other base shapes soon. Who said weaving had to be straight?!

02/09/2026

We left these little woven rocks in Weardale last April after spending a month there working on the book. I wonder if anyone found them. Those mossy stone walls were to die for 🥰

02/09/2026

This one is still waiting for me in the studio - I'm getting itchy fingers!

02/09/2026

25/08/2026

We've come full circle!

Our advance copy of the book arrived at our house the day after we left for the Lakes - but my wonderful mother in law sent it on to us here, and now I am reading it at the same table a chunk of it was written at 🥰

It is by complete coincidence that we are staying in the same cottage again - and we didn't know the book was coming so it feels very nice, to be sat here with the real book in my hands finally after more than two years!

And of course little Wilbur has joined us this year too!

Many firsts for him on this trip; rolling from front to back, passing objects from one hand to the other, first time facing out in the carrier (a big hit), first mountain climb, first taste of a carrot 🥕 and a lick of Dal.

A first for me; breastfeeding in a carpark 🤣

04/08/2026

Isn't the 3/3 twill amazing?! One simple structure, sooooo many patterns!

I learnt how to weave on a loom. First a table loom, then a huge floor loom with a big old pedal (the type where you end up with one muscly leg and one not 😂), then a computerised one, then a jacquard, then an industrial one, and back to a big old floor loom (but with two pedals this time for equally toned legs 😂).

But I don't think I properly understood the magic, the potential, the miraculousness of woven structure until I started weaving with needle and thread during the covid lockdowns.

The 'up close' nature of it helped me to really get to grips with the overs and unders, to make real sense of it. Many an 'aha! moment' was had on the sofa at home with my bits of cardboard and hotel sewing kit 😂 (whilst quietly panicking about what was going to happen to my loom weaving business)

I did always find loom weaving magical - for the rhythm, the repetitive actions, the sounds of the shafts lifting and dropping, the cloth growing and growing before your eyes. I love them both for different things 🥰