Monday, August 04, 2008

Visit to the Historical Acadian Village



I just came back from a week's vacation in New-Brunswick, along with my sister and my two nieces. We drove from Toronto . Looooots of driving.



Anyways, one of the many places we visited was the Historical Acadian Village. I've always wondered why I couldn't find antique knitting needles. Well it turns out, the Acadians were using wood needles...

















Of course, they were making their own yarn...
Spinning...
And were using all natural plant dyes... I wish I knew what plants created each of these vibrant colours.

2 comments:

RoadSide said...

Natural dyeing has always interested me, but Im afraid to take on a whole new obsession with yarn just yet :)

elisabetha said...

wow...nature is amazing. look at all those colours! did you get to see what sort of stuff they knit?