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Updated 1 time:Now that we are done with moving, our inventory is rather depleted.
Starting Monday, we are going to work on rebuilding our stock, making
changes in some product lines and bringing out some new items we have
been testing and playing with for some time. In particular, we will be
making several batches of pine tar soap, replacing our oatmeal soap
which has been out for some time, and building back up our fiber arts
products, including several shawls.
The finishing wax, oil soap, and saddle soap we have been
experimenting with for our own use will be introduced for sale. We
will be rearranging our candle lineup, mainly phasing out paraffin
candles to concentrate on the beeswax and palm wax, working with
sunflower oil as an adulterant to paraffin candles, and working a
lot more with the traditional hand made wicking and reproduction
quality historical candles, including the medieval poured
candlesticks (to 3' tall) we offered several years ago.
We should have our sheep in the pasture by the end of the month and
it is getting close to shearing time, so we will have several excellent
Shetland fleeces to work with shortly. Poke weed and elderberry are now
both ripe, so will also be offering some hand-dyes in those colors soon.
Now that we have access to quite a lot of excellent hardwood,
including black walnut, butternut, osage, and white ash, we will
start offering some of our weaving, spinning, and knitting tools
for sale from our own wood and finishing wax: shuttles, swords,
small looms, spindles, knitty noddies, gnostispindes (traditional
ball winder), mauls, gluts, walking sticks, bow staves, tool
handles, and so forth, on somewhat of an ad hoc basis and starting
probably in early fall. Some products will need to wait for at
least early spring for the wood to season. We are
looking for a local metalsmith to make a tool for us called a
shaft puller or sizing plate for making dowels or shafts from
hand-split wood. We will make tool handles to order given access to
the tool head; we know from experience it is very hard to find new
handles for traditional tools.
Anyway, exciting things are happening; stay tuned. |
