Wool Seat Pad Loom

Make a comfy, unique wool seat pad using a peg loom

Come and make a beautiful square seat pad made from different types of washed sheep fleeces. Includes Breeds – Welsh Mule, Blueface Leicester, Corriedale, Jacob, Black Nose Valais. You can choose the fleece or fleeces you would like to use. Each fleece has a different structure, colour and texture so your seat pad will be unique.

During the workshop you will use a peg loom to make your seat pad. that will measure approximately 50 x 50 cm (19.5x 19.5. inch). This size is perfect for a garden chair, kitchen chair or car seat.

Peg loom weaving is a simple ancient weaving method that goes back thousands of years, possibly even used in the Bronze Age. The Vikings made mats and rugs with this method and North American indigenous people also used it. It is valued as a simple but efficient method to create thick durable textiles without the need for a complex loom.

Jeannette, your tutor, will guide you step by step so it is suitable for beginners and people with experience of working with a peg loom.

Jeannette fell in love with sheep as a child when spending memorable days at her Grandparent’s farm. Their beautiful fleeces have sadly been neglected for many years, the value hardly covering the cost of shearing. Yet fleece is an eco-friendly, sustainable material for many uses in everyday life.

Jeannette bought her first flock of six Welsh MuIe sheep for Border Collie pup Meg to work with. She also visited a farmer friend and helped with lambing. She learned learn how to look after sheep and start lambing. She loves to watch her beautiful sheep grazing on her smallholding on the Cornwall north coast.

She makes rugs, seat pads, scarves using a loom weaving process and hats and cushions using dry and wet felting. We have a selection of these in the Gallery.