From NHS rainbows to fun in Seoul: 12 creatives on cultural and design highlights of 2020
Last modified on Fri 18 Dec 2020 05.54 EST * * * Susie Gillespie at the loom in her Devon workshop Photograph: Jeremy Walker/Jeremy walker Selected by architect Sarah Wigglesworth In February, about four weeks before lockdown, I attended a five-day course in weaving linen run by textile artist Susie Gillespie. Held at a farm near Totnes where they grow their own flax, we flayed, spun, dyed with natural dyes, and then wove a piece of cloth, all in five days. It was incredibly fulfilling, calming, meditative, quiet but also communal, with eight of us all working together but with entirely diff...
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