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Subject: I hate coming up with witty subject lines...
Susan:
You don't know me (perhaps you will in the near future) but my name is Ashley Wilson and I'm a sculpture major (...yay).
After ten years of raising sheep, I've finally come to the conclusion that I want to teach myself how to spin wool into yarn. And it's coming along quite nicely (that's not really what I'm getting at, though... what am I getting at?). Just finishing reading a book -- Turning Wool into a Cottage Industry -- and there was a farm mentioned there called The River Farm, located in the Shenandoah Valley.
I searched for it online with no success. I searched the name of the shepherds Priscilla Blosser-Rainey and Jerry Rainey. Priscilla's name showed up with www.weavespindye.org's COE Handspinning Bibliography (and that's about it). Digging around a bit, I found you -- noticed Ancient Peruvian Tapestry and BOOM I realised you were a professor at VCU.
So question time! For the textiles classes, are there any trips made out to any of these farms? (Or even suggested for recreational fun-time?) If so, is The River Farm a suggested place to visit?
I've a few friends in sculpture who are mildly interested in the process behind the wool industry and, while I'm still learning a great deal even after my ten years of working knowledge, I feel that an established facility would be a great place to start.
If I seem a bit silly or over-eager, I'm sorry -- I get like this about things I'm very interested in.
I am, as always
Ashley E. Wilson
wilsonae@vcu.edu
Sheep are love. (Go on. Ask me why.)
Bwahahaha. Hopefully I'll get an answer :\
Susan:
You don't know me (perhaps you will in the near future) but my name is Ashley Wilson and I'm a sculpture major (...yay).
After ten years of raising sheep, I've finally come to the conclusion that I want to teach myself how to spin wool into yarn. And it's coming along quite nicely (that's not really what I'm getting at, though... what am I getting at?). Just finishing reading a book -- Turning Wool into a Cottage Industry -- and there was a farm mentioned there called The River Farm, located in the Shenandoah Valley.
I searched for it online with no success. I searched the name of the shepherds Priscilla Blosser-Rainey and Jerry Rainey. Priscilla's name showed up with www.weavespindye.org's COE Handspinning Bibliography (and that's about it). Digging around a bit, I found you -- noticed Ancient Peruvian Tapestry and BOOM I realised you were a professor at VCU.
So question time! For the textiles classes, are there any trips made out to any of these farms? (Or even suggested for recreational fun-time?) If so, is The River Farm a suggested place to visit?
I've a few friends in sculpture who are mildly interested in the process behind the wool industry and, while I'm still learning a great deal even after my ten years of working knowledge, I feel that an established facility would be a great place to start.
If I seem a bit silly or over-eager, I'm sorry -- I get like this about things I'm very interested in.
I am, as always
Ashley E. Wilson
wilsonae@vcu.edu
Sheep are love. (Go on. Ask me why.)
Bwahahaha. Hopefully I'll get an answer :\
