Pick-up from the hotel 09:45
Welcome to the farm where Ragnhild Lie has a small flock of wild sheep. In the barn there is a wool workshop, dye shop, and a store with several employees. It’s all about local wool, yarn, knitting, tradition, design processes and product development.
What is Norwegian wool? How to use it? Why is it so good? What does it take to make good wool? Ragnhild will tell us and give us a behind the scenes look at LOFOTEN WOOL and her own textile art.
Join us for an unceremonious conversation around sheep, wool, textile fibre and perhaps ask each other questions like “what is our relationship to the textiles we use today? “
Ragnhild Lie has her education from The Art Academy in Bergen with a major in textile arts and craft. She came to Lofoten in 1997 and has for years worked with art- and culture projects, education and the establishing of LOFOTEN WOOL in 2014. Since then everything has been about wool. Now she is a sheep farmer, business manager and textile artist.
Put on some good clothes so if the weather is ok we can mingle with the sheep outside.