Jubilee Fibres: 2021

A Bit About us.

Jubilee Fibres is a celebration of fibre, with wool being our main component and many other fibres too, for good measure. Aboard our narrow boat we produce one of a kind fibres & yarns for crafters to use for spinning, wet & dry felting, embellishing, knitting, crochet, weaving and other crafts too. We dye the fibres and yarns ourselves. In addition we have a range of handmade items, including some made from upcycled material. We will be offering a small range of drops spindles and kits.

Where possible we use natural dye stuffs harvested from the towpath and wool from British suppliers.

Jubilee Fibres, was established early 2020, is a micro business aboard narrow boat Burnt Oak. We live aboard our 60’ long & 6’10” wide boat quite comfortably, along with all our crafts. We continuously cruise the inland waterways of England & Wales and will announce where we will be moored to welcome customers.

The easiest way to pinpoint our trading locations is with ‘What3words’. We will publish our ‘what3words’ when we moor up. Using this method we can pin point our exact location so you are able to find us.

Members of Roving Canal Traders Association (RCTA).

Floating Fibre Festival

Floating Fibre Festival

An outdoor alternative to all the larger events at this time of year (weather permitting)

Leeds & Liverpool Canal

Saturday 25^th & 26^th September 2021

11.00 -16.00

Mooring confirmed as outside The Farmers Arms, New Lane, Burscough

what3words click link for location

Open in West Lancashire in conjunction with The Wool Boat

Very exciting - 2 canal boat traders, selling woolly fluffiness!!

Commercial, hand dyed & hand spun yarns

Wool tops natural colours and hand dyed

Hand-knitted & woven garments

Drop spindles and knitting tools

Spinning demonstration

Worldwide Spin in Public Day

Worldwide Spin in Public Day

Saturday 18^th September 2021

10.00-16.00

Rufford Visitor Mooring

Leeds & Liverpool Canal, West Lancashire.

Close to Rufford Old Hall (NT house) & super cafés at the marinas

https://what3words.com/occur.area.crumple

Join Jubilee Fibres for this special spinning day (weather permitting).

Handcrafted drop spindles

British wool tops - natural colours and dyed

Hand dyed yarn

Open 3 days over August Bank Holiday

Open 3 days over August Bank Holiday weekend 2021.

Near Rufford Old Hall (National Trust house), Lancashire.

Saturday 28^th, Sunday 29^th & Monday 30^th August 2021. 10.00-16.00

Weather permitting, but please knock on narrowboat Burnt Oak if you’re passing & it’s a bit damp!!

Moored on the visitor moorings just behind Rufford Old Hall and very near to the wonderful tearooms at St. Mary’s & Fettlers Wharf Marinas

Our exact location https://w3w.co/occur.area.crumple

Hand dyed yarns & wool tops, some naturally solar dyed on the boat roof.

Lots of single breed British wool.

Hand woven scarves & shawls/throws.

Hand made British drop spindles.

Spinning demonstration.

Anderton Boat Lift

Open Saturday 26^th & Sunday 27^th June, 10.00-16.00, on the Trent & Mersey Canal near the AndertonBoat Lift, one of the ‘wonders of the waterways’.

We have had a busy week dyeing some merino tops in a ‘berries & cream’ & plum colour ways.

Shetland grey & white tops dyed in ‘citrus’ colours.

Naturally dyed beautifully soft baby alpaca and BFL, both DK yarns with onion skins and nettles.

JUBILEE BLOG

Open Saturday 19^th & Sunday 20^th June, 10.00-16.00 (weather permitting)

We are moored on the Trent & Mersey Canal near to Anderton Boat Lift visitor centre.

Solar dying in progress and spinning demonstrations with spinning wheel and drop spindle.

Lots of British yarns and wool tops available, along with drop spindles, hand made knitted & woven items.

Bank holiday change of plan.

Plan change - closed Monday 3rd May due to the forecast of very heavy rain & strong wind.

EARLY MAY BANK HOLIDAY 2021

We are planning to open this weekend for the 3 days over the bank holiday, 1st-3rd May, 10.00-16.00hrs.

Leeds and Liverpool Canal, moored beside Frederick’s Ice Cream Shop, which is on the A6 south of Chorley. WHAT3WORDS.

So we didn’t have the perfect year for the launch of Jubilee Fibres, but we’re really looking forward to 2021. We’ve had a dress rehearsal near Adlington.

The weather has been gorgeous which meant we’ve done some dying.

Dyed Shetland in, ‘bonkers after lockdown’, ‘caterpillar’, ‘covish green’ and ‘pink sky’ colourways!!

Natural Shetland tops in 4 natural colours, white, black, grey and moorit. These are airy, fluffy fibres perfect for spinning woollen yarn and felting.

Grey Suffolk tops, perfect to for learning to spin with.

Undyed yarns in lace, 4 ply, DK & chunky.

Prices vary, depending on type of fibre and whether dyed.

- 100g tops from £2 - £7.50

- 100g yarn from £6.50-£18

Wooden drop spindles £12

Up cycled CD drop spindles £4.50