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9 Days To Make A Single Natural Material Handcrafted Elegant Shawl Or Stole – Stage 1
VE-WE-GE Empowering Rural India claims that it takes 8 to 9 days just to make a single 100% handcrafted shawl or stole from that you buy from around £40 to £90.
Let us take a look at and analyze each stage of making one piece of this art. The three most common materials used in making a natural material shawl or stole are cotton, wool, and silk. It is already time-consuming to sheer a sheep for wool, pick cotton from cotton fields, and obtain silk from silkworms. Even after this, there are several lengthy processes manually done by hand. For simplicity, let us take a look at these stages using wool.
STAGE 1 – CARDING THE WOOL
Manually carding the wool gives a better quality end product than mass machine carding. It is a process of brushing the wool fibers to organize them into a fiber web. This is then layered out flatly, rolled into ravings, or split spinning rolls.
The video below will show you the process of manually carding the wool.
STAGE 2 – Taken the Wool & Putting them on Spinning Wheel
This is a process of taken the Carded wool fibers and putting them through spinning wheel to create a woolen yarn. The spinning wheel or chakra is well associated in history with Mahatma Gandhi who used it as a tool to defy the British government. He encouraged all Indians to wear homespun clothes as opposed to the clothes made in Lancashire, England.
Using the spinning wheel takes a lot of skills and patience. Feeding too Little fiber can break the yarn. Feeding it too much can create uneven yarn.
The effect of handspun yarn as opposed to machine or factory spun yarn is that, from touchingly, we felt it to be far more softer and lovely to touch and flexible, resulting in more beautiful and soft handcrafted finished articles.
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