Learn how clothing was made in the past. From raw wool, to carding, spinning, dyeing and finally weaving the cloth. Try your hand at weaving and see what you can make!
Level: 1st to 6th Class
Group size: 15
Location: Activity Room
Duration: 60 minutes
Times: 10am to 11am or 11.30am to 12.30pm
Curriculum Links: History - Working as an historian; Time & chronology; Change & continuity; Life, society, work, and culture in the past; Life in the 19th Century; Continuity & change; Clothes. Visual Arts - An awareness of colour, tone, texture, pattern & rhythm; Fabric & fibre; Creating in fabric and fibre; Looking & responding
Learning Outcomes: Learn about the process of weaving and its associated vocabulary; See and feel different materials made from wool, as well as wool in its raw state; Try carding and spinning on a drop spindle; Try weaving on a card loom; Complete a weaving peg bracelet to take home; See what other students made, and share the new information they learned with their class and their teachers.