A thousand miles on foot with a mule
Oxford to Loch Lomond and back
Interwoven features in The Journal for Weavers, Spinners & Dyers
One of 15 weavers who made the Interwoven textile is Katherine Cowtan, based near Glasgow. Her article about the experience features in the Spring Issue 297 of The Journal, published by the national Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers (AGWSD). ...
Stop Ecocide Guest Blog Post
I have written a guest blog post for Stop Ecocide International.
An introduction to Interwoven
Interwoven invites UK-based loom weavers, spinners and natural dyers to help create a textile piece expressing your care for the living world. The piece will be offered as a gift - from one island nation to another - to the South Pacific island of Vanuatu, to honour...
Falco the mule
Falco was born in southern France near Avignon in the Alpes-de-haute-Provence. His mother was an Apaloosa, his father a French donkey. Here’s the story of how we met.It took a year of failing to find a suitable mule before I saw an advert for Falco in a European...
Walk for Earth – the first steps
Hi, and welcome to the first post from Falco and me! If you're interested in why I'm doing this and how it all began, read on... Since around 2015 I knew I wanted to do a long distance walk. What makes you want to walk out alone and not come back for a long time? I...
Making friends
Stories of an education in mules, horses and donkeys I learnt how to pick a donkey’s feet in a yard in Upton, Liverpool in February 2019. I’d come to meet Adam Lee and his four-legged team-mate Martin, who’d carried his gear the length of Britain. Adam was...