to weave a tapestry

I want to show you some photos from the making of a tapestry.

My tapestries are made in wool, linen, a smaller amount of cotton, and sometimes a small amount of synthetic yarn.

For each tapestry I dye the colors needed, in different hues, in different values.

The wool is spun at the Wålstedt Textile in Sweden (www.walstedts.se). They spin yarn from an old Swedish breed of sheep named Rya-sheep. This sheep has very long glossy and strong piles of wool, which are spun into beautiful tapestry-yarn.

I twine three linen yarns in different colors on a spinning wheel to get the warp that suits the tapestry I am to weave.