Spinning for the soul
One of the things I love about spinning and weaving is that it can be extremely relaxing and meditative. I hadn’t expected that, it came as a bit of a surprise, but when I thought about it I should have known this. Didn’t Gandhi use spinning as a meditative exercise as well as revolutionising a craft industry that took his country to independence? The answer of course is yes he did and I can understand both how and why. In today’s very materialistic world people use possessions as a way to display their so called worth and value to others; those with wealth have power and power is the ultimate aim isn’t it? Well it doesn’t have to be; being independent of the mass industrialised profiteering ethos is extremely freeing and has a feel good factor massively more than the possession of the latest in thing. There is of course the temptation to have the latest in thing for your cottage craft but that isn’t because of peer pressure to have something better than those next d...