The Trust that I work with seeks to integrate the head, the heart and the hand by braiding the world of ideas with the world of values and the world of commitment. I wholeheartedly share these views and working with felt in particular instills a sense of calm and rhythm even in the most fervent of people, working from fingertips through to palm, all the way to the wrist.

Matti Stromberg, professor and neurologist accurately points out that "The brain discovers what the fingers explore. The density of nerve endings in our finger-tips is enormous. Their discrimination is almost as good as that of our eyes. If we don’t use our fingers, if in childhood and youth we become ‘finger-blind,’ this rich network of nerves is impoverished—which represents a huge loss to the brain and thwarts the individual’s all-around development. Such damage may be likened to blindness itself. Perhaps worse, while a blind person may simply not be able to find this or that object, the finger-blind cannot understand its inner meaning and value.  If we neglect to develop and train our children’s fingers and the creative form-building capacity of their hand muscles, then we neglect to develop their understanding of the unity of things; we thwart their esthetic and creative powers. Those who shaped our age-old traditions always understood this. But today, Western civilization, an information-obsessed society that overvalues science and undervalues true worth, has forgotten it all. We are ‘value-damaged.’  The philosophy of our upbringing is science-centered and our schools are programmed toward that end. These schools have no time for the creative potential of the nimble fingers and hand, and that arrests the all-round development of our children—and of the whole community.”  

I believe in the importance of living in a more sustainable mannner and my activities are therefore based around environmentally-conscious ideals. This is also reflected in the materials that I use.

My dyes are natural dyes as they are extracted simply using water from fresh or dried plant material that I have grown in my own plant and herb garden, I do not use chemical fertilisers nor do I use pesticides. I do not use dye extracts except for indigo, which is only available in extract form. For mordanting I use alum, extracted plant mordants or iron sulphate.

Please refer to my tutorials and workshops for more detailed information.