Program: Everything you always wanted to know about flax* (*But were afraid to ask)

Everything you always wanted to know about flax*

(*But were afraid to ask)

Pam Rumney

Pam Rumney takes us the through the process of how to grow, process, spin, and dye flax/linen.

Pam spent her early life in Milwaukee, WI. Her career includes public school teaching arts. She also spent 6 years at the Dept. of the Interior as a teacher for the Cherokee Nation Jr./Sr. including fiber arts/weaving, metal arts/jewelry making and ceramics. She has also taught for the Dept of Defense for the Army and Air Force including a couple of years in South Korea. After retirement, Pam continued teaching. and served as a House Docent and 18^th C. interpreter of processing flax, spinning to linen thread and making 18^th C. garments at Londontown Historic Site and Gardens in Edgewater, MD. She currently mentors a small group of students of weaving at Sund City Carolina Lakes, SC, a 55+ community.