In The Wool Shed produces natural dyed yarns & fibres using British wool, home grown wool actually from my sisters flock of Lleyn sheep on her and her husbands farm in Kenilworth.... I also dye other British yarns such as Bluefaced Leicester and mohair. I run workshops, retreats and textile journeys to India.
In The Wool Shed is a place for me to explore a way of being, to sculpt a life exactly how I want it to be. I am a nomadic creature at heart, find difficulty in committing to work that fails to nourish my soul... I have been there, worked hard at it but find myself being miserable and wanting more than a pay packet at the end of the month. I am also a maker, a fine artist, and enjoy the challenge of learning. I have a need to travel, and take great pleasure living in another country - being the outsider looking in on a culture that is not mine. For the last 16 years I have stayed still in the UK, I am a mother, and put my child's needs over earning money, a seemingly foolish way to lead ones life in todays world of consumerism so it seems. My reward is the time spent together, and gosh we have had quite an adventure.... but now he is fast approaching that time when he no longer needs me, and I am getting hungry for my old ways involving tickets to India.
For most of my life I have been in search of something, I smile as I write this as I remember way back when I purchased every self help book in the hope that it would give me the answer. Endless travel was my addiction, my escape, an excuse to find myself - I realise now that I was actually running away from myself, because all along it has simply been here, now, right this moment.... and that is it, all I need, all the answers are just here.... its brilliant. I continue to research the quest for peace, I now regularly glimpse its mysteries, I say glimpse because it disappears on me in the blink of an eye... but I know where it is and what I need to do, the frustration has gone, the intense need to know what is going to happen next. I let things unfold in the way they need to.... its actually more like flying by the seat of my pants most of the time.... with a level of stress eating away at my soul, but hey who is perfect, and I couldn't live any other way..... one day I will work it all out.
So this blog is about all the those things that make me feel something, the stuff that drives In The Wool Shed to be what it is today.... this is about an unbroken thread quite literally weaving its way through me, my deep love of India, natural fibres & dyes, cloth, and the process of making and a mindful practice. Emma Price April 2016
In The Wool Shed is a place for me to explore a way of being, to sculpt a life exactly how I want it to be. I am a nomadic creature at heart, find difficulty in committing to work that fails to nourish my soul... I have been there, worked hard at it but find myself being miserable and wanting more than a pay packet at the end of the month. I am also a maker, a fine artist, and enjoy the challenge of learning. I have a need to travel, and take great pleasure living in another country - being the outsider looking in on a culture that is not mine. For the last 16 years I have stayed still in the UK, I am a mother, and put my child's needs over earning money, a seemingly foolish way to lead ones life in todays world of consumerism so it seems. My reward is the time spent together, and gosh we have had quite an adventure.... but now he is fast approaching that time when he no longer needs me, and I am getting hungry for my old ways involving tickets to India.
For most of my life I have been in search of something, I smile as I write this as I remember way back when I purchased every self help book in the hope that it would give me the answer. Endless travel was my addiction, my escape, an excuse to find myself - I realise now that I was actually running away from myself, because all along it has simply been here, now, right this moment.... and that is it, all I need, all the answers are just here.... its brilliant. I continue to research the quest for peace, I now regularly glimpse its mysteries, I say glimpse because it disappears on me in the blink of an eye... but I know where it is and what I need to do, the frustration has gone, the intense need to know what is going to happen next. I let things unfold in the way they need to.... its actually more like flying by the seat of my pants most of the time.... with a level of stress eating away at my soul, but hey who is perfect, and I couldn't live any other way..... one day I will work it all out.
So this blog is about all the those things that make me feel something, the stuff that drives In The Wool Shed to be what it is today.... this is about an unbroken thread quite literally weaving its way through me, my deep love of India, natural fibres & dyes, cloth, and the process of making and a mindful practice. Emma Price April 2016