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Jun. 14th, 2005
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Jun. 14th, 2005 11:53 amSubject: 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 :\
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Jun. 14th, 2005 12:44 pmA long long time ago, I was selected top three for an essay writing competition to win a Karakul ewe lamb from Old Gjerpen Farm (Culpepper, VA) through the Youth Conservation Program. Of those three, I was not the top winner, but I was invited to see their flock and/or visit them at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival that year. It had to have been 1997. I tried again the year after without success. And promptly gave up, but used the MSaWF as an excuse not to go with someone to the prom the year after.
Memories, what would we do without them? :P
Memories, what would we do without them? :P
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Jun. 14th, 2005 01:08 pmomgyay :D
OMG yay-yay, but they're too far away....
...
And this is too good :D http://www.thistlecovefarm.com/
http://www.ramshornstudio.com/index.htm
And, fwee! http://www.sheepmilk.biz/
Getting Around 'Silly' Rules
In front of his dilapidated house and falling-down wooden fence there is a sign:
"Sheep cheese produced from unpasteurized milk. ...Recipe six generations old. Absolutely not EU compliant, so designated for animal food. Has been tested on humans."
The Brit paper says an "army" of health inspectors in front of his house and near the area are questioning customers what they'll do with their cheese. All of them insist they are buying it for animals. One retiree living by himself with a goldfish even said he buys it for his neighbor's dog.
The Czech bureaucrats couldn't find a way to close this loophole in the regulations, so now they are saying the cheese is not suitable for animals because it contains herbs and spices. So once again Mr. Hajek's production is being threatened to be closed or forced to pay a fine of one million Czech crowns.
http://www.sheepmagazine.com/
I really need to catch up on my sheep-reading.
CALIFORNIA: Tail-docking for fairs; tail must be able to be lifted up from body -- sheep without tails (docked to the meat) are not able to be shown. Virginia does not have this requirement, but I wish we did.
Yeah, just pass me by -- I'm a sheep-aholic, it'll never change.
OMG yay-yay, but they're too far away....
...
And this is too good :D http://www.thistlecovefarm.com/
http://www.ramshornstudio.com/index.htm
And, fwee! http://www.sheepmilk.biz/
Getting Around 'Silly' Rules
In front of his dilapidated house and falling-down wooden fence there is a sign:
"Sheep cheese produced from unpasteurized milk. ...Recipe six generations old. Absolutely not EU compliant, so designated for animal food. Has been tested on humans."
The Brit paper says an "army" of health inspectors in front of his house and near the area are questioning customers what they'll do with their cheese. All of them insist they are buying it for animals. One retiree living by himself with a goldfish even said he buys it for his neighbor's dog.
The Czech bureaucrats couldn't find a way to close this loophole in the regulations, so now they are saying the cheese is not suitable for animals because it contains herbs and spices. So once again Mr. Hajek's production is being threatened to be closed or forced to pay a fine of one million Czech crowns.
http://www.sheepmagazine.com/
I really need to catch up on my sheep-reading.
CALIFORNIA: Tail-docking for fairs; tail must be able to be lifted up from body -- sheep without tails (docked to the meat) are not able to be shown. Virginia does not have this requirement, but I wish we did.
Yeah, just pass me by -- I'm a sheep-aholic, it'll never change.