Last modified on Fri 18 Dec 2020 05.54 EST
Susie Gillespie at the loom in her Devon workshop Photograph: Jeremy Walker/Jeremy walker
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Sarah Wigglesworth
In February, about four weeks before lockdown, I attended a five-day course in weaving linen run by textile artist Susie Gillespie. Held at a farm near Totnes where they grow their own flax, we flayed, spun, dyed with natural dyes, and then wove a piece of cloth, all in five days. It was incredibly fulfilling, calming, meditative, quiet but also communal, with eight of us all working together but with entirely different interests, aesthetics and skills. Wonderful.