Loom bobbins via Instagram
Turn of the century loom
Stansborough LTD Woolen Mill, Petone, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
This small and unique mill produced fabric for costumes for The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Narnia and more. They raise their own unique sheep herd that produces naturally colored wool in a variety of shades from black to gray to white.
You can get an overview of what they do and see their turn of the century looms working on their factory tour.
See my entire collection of photos from this New Zealand Trip
Join me on Douglas E. Welch Photography on Facebook
You can get an overview of what they do and see their turn of the century looms working on their factory tour.
Learn more about New Zealand with these books
* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs
** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out!
Categories: Art-Architecture, History, New Zealand, Photos-Photography, Technology, Travel Tags: 1900s, costumes, film, instagram, loom, lowerhutt, machinery, movies, newzealand, petone, photography, stansborough, stansboroughwool, technology, tour, travel, weaving, wool, yarn
Warp and weft via Instagram
Stansborough LTD Woolen Mill, Petone, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
This small and unique mill produced fabric for costumes for The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Narnia and more. They raise their own unique sheep herd that produces naturally colored wool in a variety of shades from black to gray to white.
You can get an overview of what they do and see their turn of the century looms working on their factory tour.
See my entire collection of photos from this New Zealand Trip
Join me on Douglas E. Welch Photography on Facebook
You can get an overview of what they do and see their turn of the century looms working on their factory tour.
Learn more about New Zealand with these books
* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs
** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out!
Categories: Art-Architecture, History, New Zealand, Photos-Photography, Technology, Travel Tags: costumes, film, instagram, loom, lowerhutt, machinery, movies, newzealand, petone, photography, stansborough, stansboroughwool, tour, travel, weaving, wool, yarn
Photos from our recent (August 2017) vacation to New Zealand with stops in Wellington and Dunedin.
Master weaver explaining the shuttle and bobbin for a turn of the century loom.
Stansborough LTD Woolen Mill, Petone, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
This small and unique mill produced fabric for costumes for The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Narnia and more. They raise their own unique sheep herd that produces naturally colored wool in a variety of shades from black to gray to white.
You can get an overview of what they do and see their turn of the century looms working on their factory tour.
See my entire collection of photos from this New Zealand Trip
Join me on Douglas E. Welch Photography on Facebook
You can get an overview of what they do and see their turn of the century looms working on their factory tour.
Learn more about New Zealand with these books
* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs
** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out!
Categories: Art-Architecture, History, New Zealand, Photos-Photography, Travel Tags: 1900s, costumes, film, instagram, loom, lowerhutt, machinery, movies, newzealand, petone, photography, stansborough, stansboroughwool, technology, tour, travel, weaving, wool, yarn
Master weaver explains pattern control pegs on turn of the century loom, Stansborough LTD Woolen Mill, Petone, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Stansborough LTD Woolen Mill, Petone, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
This small and unique mill produced fabric for costumes for The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Narnia and more. They raise their own unique sheep herd that produces naturally colored wool in a variety of shades from black to gray to white.
You can get an overview of what they do and see their turn of the century looms working on their factory tour.
See my entire collection of photos from this New Zealand Trip
Join me on Douglas E. Welch Photography on Facebook
You can get an overview of what they do and see their turn of the century looms working on their factory tour.
Learn more about New Zealand with these books
* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs
** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out!
Categories: Art-Architecture, History, New Zealand, Photos-Photography, Technology Tags: 1900s, costumes, film, instagram, loom, lowerhutt, machinery, movies, newzealand, petone, photography, stansborough, stansboroughwool, technology, tour, travel, weaving, wool, yarn
Turn of the Century Loom
Stansborough LTD Woolen Mill, Petone, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
This small and unique mill produced fabric for costumes for The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Narnia and more. They raise their own unique sheep herd that produces naturally colored wool in a variety of shades from black to gray to white.
You can get an overview of what they do and see their turn of the century looms working on their factory tour.
Join me on Douglas E. Welch Photography on Facebook
You can get an overview of what they do and see their turn of the century looms working on their factory tour.
Learn more about New Zealand with these books
* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs
** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out!
Categories: Art-Architecture, History, New Zealand, Technology, Travel Tags: 1900s, black and white, costumes, film, instagram, loom, lowerhutt, machinery, movies, newzealand, petone, photography, stansborough, stansboroughwool, technology, tour, travel, weaving, wool, yarn
Rosanne emerges from the Wardrobe to continue the tour at Stanborough Mill
“Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe”
Stansborough LTD Woolen Mill, Petone, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
This small and unique mill produced fabric for costume for The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Narnia and more. They raise their own unique sheep herd that produces naturally colored wool in a a variety of shades from black to gray to white.
You can get an overview of what they do and see their turn of the century looms working on their factory tour.
Join me on Douglas E. Welch Photography on Facebook
You can get an overview of what they do and see their turn of the century looms working on their factory tour.
Learn more about New Zealand with these books
* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs
** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out!
Categories: Art-Architecture, Books, New Zealand, Travel Tags: costumes, film, instagram, loom, lowerhutt, movies, narnia, newzealand, petone, photography, stansborough, stansboroughwool, tour, travel, weaving, wool, yarn
Woolen products at Stansborough LTD Woolen Mill, Petone, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
This small and unique mill produced fabric for costumes for The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, Narnia and more. They raise their own unique sheep herd that produces naturally colored wool in a variety of shades from black to gray to white.
You can get an overview of what they do and see their turn of the century looms working on their factory tour.
Join me on Douglas E. Welch Photography on Facebook
* A portion of each sale from Amazon.com directly supports our blogs
** Many of these books may be available from your local library. Check it out!
Categories: Art-Architecture, New Zealand, Products, Travel Tags: architecture, costumes, douglas e. welch, douglas welch, film, instagram, loom, lowerhutt, movies, nature, newzealand, petone, photo, photography, stansborough, stansboroughwool, tour, travel, weaving, wool, yarn
LA Cowboy posted notice of these walks…
This Weekend’s Walking Tours of Historic Downtown Los Angeles
The Last Bookstore Presents….
The Secret Lives of Historic Downtown Los Angeles
Saturdays will have the HISTORIC DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES 101 tour and Sunday will have the HOW LOS ANGLES INVENTED THE WILD WEST (and why no one knows it) tour.
On Saturday February 25th and Sunday February 26th (and Saturday March 3rd and Sunday March 4th) will be two different guided walking tours of Historic Downtown Los Angeles’s secret past, its present – and its future.
Read the entire blog post for more information
Categories: Elsewhere, Event, Fun, LA, Los Angeles, Nature/Outdoors Tags: california, historic, history, la, los angeles, tour, walk, walking
