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Samantha Farmer

@highlandmagic

Fibre artist, naturalist, making & dreaming in Scotland ☁️

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15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

13.04.2025 22:00 👍 9910 🔁 2699 💬 300 📌 148

Thanks ☺️

18.02.2025 17:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Spinning up some undyed pure cashmere today in between yarn orders ☁️ slippery and tricky spinning, but sooooo beautiful

17.02.2025 11:33 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

15.02.2025 20:18 👍 42210 🔁 11515 💬 500 📌 316
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Off it goes! A large part of 2024’s wool & fleece harvest is away to be cleaned and processed by the wonderful @border_mill 🤍

Beautiful Shetland wool from a smallholder near Glen Affric, lush Ryeland wool from Glen Urquhart, and the loveliest alpaca saddle fleece from Beauly.

15.02.2025 10:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Be a part of a very tiny supply chain this year- my fleece harvest goes to the mill this weekend!

Your preorders influence how much I am able to have processed ☁️

More info & preorder form are available on my website 🤍

Let’s keep doing the best we can to fight plastic fibre! Order local 🫶🏻

09.02.2025 13:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Spinning away… fresh batch of #ScottishHighlands Shetland x Cheviot wool coming soon to my shop. + todays addition to the wall 🐦

07.02.2025 23:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Highland Magic Wool Preorder Form Please click the link to complete this form.

I’ve just made preorders a bit more simple: here is a form for you to use! 2 weeks left to get yours in for 20% off.

form.jotform.com/250373968543...

07.02.2025 16:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hiya! I’m originally from the same area 😊 My husband and I had a Twin Peaks-themed wedding the year The Return came out! He’s originally from Scotland and we moved back over after our first kid was born.

06.02.2025 08:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Spinning a yarn with a broken foot… no problem 😆 out comes the Electric Eel Wheel, a #TwinPeaks rewatch, and lots of coffee. Custom production order for a wool shop in Speyside, #Scotland.

#handspunyarn #handspinner #fibrearts #fiberarts

05.02.2025 17:41 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The making of the Meadowsweet Shawl 🌱🤍

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#fibrearts #fibreartis

02.02.2025 15:46 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Preorders are open! Get 20% off of listed 2025 prices by getting your wool ordered ahead of time. I’m having one yarn made (a Ryeland-alpaca Aran weight knitting yarn 🥰) and three pencil rovings for weaving, spinning and felting.

All of my materials are sourced by myself from Scottish smallholders.

31.01.2025 15:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Science Magic: Natural Dyeing for Crafters and Artists Samantha Farmer - 3 day natural dyeing and spinning workshop - 28/29/30th July- £330 Science Magic is a dive into hands-on exploration of local fibres and natural dyeing. Wool, plants and fungi from...

Book your place here:

comriearthut.com/book-a-cours...

30.01.2025 16:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Join me in July for Summer School at Comrie Art Hut! 🛖 Three days of natural dyeing, foraging, handspinning and mellow creative time.

Limited spaces available- come to Scotland at the loveliest time of year and take a sweater quantity of naturally dyed Highlands yarn home with you 🤍

30.01.2025 16:02 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Be a part of the wave of small yarn producers- I’m fundraising to create a small batch Ryeland/Alpaca knitting yarn with Scottish Highlands provenance. Supporting the mill fund gets you yarn at 20% off, or a credit toward a bespoke wearable or art piece.

28.01.2025 18:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TikTok - Make Your Day

Art studio progress vid! I’ve been hobbled by fractures in both feet, but I’ll be back up there building as soon as I’m brave enough to get up the attic stairs 😆

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28.01.2025 17:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wool Processing 2025 — Samantha Farmer Post by Samantha Farmer

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28.01.2025 13:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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This #naturallydyed & #handwoven infinity cowl and poncho are here to brighten your weekend! Some yarns used are handspun Soay wool from a heritage flock, and fluffy squidgy Shetland wool from near #glenaffric that I dyed with invasive Himalayan Balsam leaves. #handspunyarn #handspunscotland

26.01.2025 14:07 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Rebellious Hope Fighting Tenderly for What's Right

I would love to be a role model for my fellow creative artists in this way: to not be consumed entirely in knee-jerk pessimistic reactivity to the collective dark night of the soul ushered in by the fascist abuser.

For more on this matter, please see my newsletter: tinyurl.com/RebelliousHopeWins

22.01.2025 23:19 👍 45 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 2
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So I was never a Twitter user, and I have zero idea what I’m doing, but people seem interested in my renovation projects- so I’ll post more of that here! We moved into a Frankenstein-style mishmash (of 1700s, 1860s middle Victorian and 1950s Midcentury) of a house last summer. Art studio progress!

22.01.2025 18:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0