Tour de Fleece vlog 6: Spinning, Knitting, Culture and living in Belgium
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ค. 2023
- Hello friends! It's July, so that means only one thing: it is Tour de Fleece! We shall be spinning wool for the next 23 days straight, or at least on the days that the cyclists in the Tour de France are cycling. In this video I vlog stages 19, 20, 21 and 22 of the Tour de Fleece where I spin the Zwartbles fleece we have skirted, washed and combed last week. For all this spinning we shall rely on Jillian, my compact spinningwheel, a Louët S71.
I have asked you guys some questions to have interesting topics to talk about these 23 days. In today's video we shall mainly talk about my fatherland: Belgium. Culture, foods and famous people. Also: what we celebrate on our national holiday.
Speaking about travels, you can check out our history hikes on @TheHistoryHikers
and over the coming weeks you can check out drone footage of the castles in this video on @OrcaFPV
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Do you have a peculiar fiber arts story about your country/culture?
I am not very up on the history of Dutch fiber arts to be honest. But I do know that we have had (and still have) some very good spinning wheel makers here. Louët is based in the Netherlands and of course your Wernekinck is also from here. Other than that, I would have to Google it myself too 😂
And woolmakers too! (But of course that's actually Louët in disguise)
Not peculiar but... In Friesland we have the oldest and working planetarium of the world. It was build, in his own living room in Franeker, by Eise Eisinga. Like many children Eise had to work for his father: Jelte Eisinga had a wool combing business. Eise was interested in Astronomie and Math. He was so eager to learn that when he was young he would weekly walk from Dronrijp to Franeker (7 to 8 km's) to study the math books of Euclides. He did this together with Willem Wijtses a wool dyer. When he was older took over his father's wool combing business and he expanded the company. He had 400 people working for him, his business was thriving. He married and went to live in Franeker. That's where he build the Planetarium in his living room (with help of his father and brother), so he could be able to see what was happening in the sky at any moment. I highly recommend a visit to the Planetarium! 🌌
More sad than peculiar. Despite still being home to 64 million sheep, Australia only has one commercial mill that processes from sheep's back to finished wares. It is also the oldest mill in the country, Waverly Woollen Mills in Tasmania. So much for the country that said to have 'rode on the sheep's back.'
@@jirup even Belgium has more Mills then?! Only one real commercial one though.
One unique thing about Scotland - our national animal is the unicorn. Can't beat taking a mythical non-existent creature as your national representative.😄
Yeah, the unicorn trumps our lion (flanders) and rooster (Wallonia) 😁
@@MijnWolden - One of my managers is from Wallonia. When things get tough, he’s incredibly reliable. He jokingly credits it to the Walloon rooster: “It’s the only songbird that ‘ll keep singing whilst ankle-deep in sh*t.” 😂
My father is half German, half Belgian (Flemish). My mother is Dutch. That means a whole lot of fibre history to investigate. If I add the fact that I was born in Switserland and lived there for a long time, that makes the list even longer. I’ve already learned a lot about the Flemish textile history thanks to having friends from abroad over frequently and needing to brush up on it in order to act as a guide to them. For Switserland, I learned about Sankt Gallen and their lace and embroidery history. I’ve delved in the rabbit hole of the construction and many styles of a Dirndl both through my German heritage and my years in Switserland. Specifically Dutch aspects of textile arts and fashion history… that’s where I’ve got work to do.
Sankt Gallen is such a treasure trove for many aspects of history!
Guys, gals, nonbinary pals. I love it 🥰
Thank you ☺️
As one of the latter, I approve 💙
From Canada, nothing peculiar except I just started spinning last summer and I am 74 years old.😊
Happy spinning! 😁
As a child, I read every Suske & Wiske strip I could get my hands on! We had a whole shelf of them at home, including some quite old ones that we got second hand (although we never had one of the original red-blue uncoloured ones).
As for an interesting tidbit about the Netherlands: did you know the country has more cities than just Amsterdam?! And that we don't actually wear clogs (save for a few people who do so unironically)? And that our country is indeed very, very flat? (I never thought about that until I went to Italy in high school, and saw actual mountains for the first time.) And that we also customarily get rain on our national holiday?
And that there are a few sheepherds which are kept in a traditional way in the central/eastern part of the country? At night they are kept in a sheepfold, and during the day the shepherd takes them out onto the moors or fields. I know of one herd that is also shorn with blade shears, and their wool is then spun or otherwise processed by a group of volunteers, who sell these things to help with the upkeep of the sheep. The breed is Veluws Heideschaap (Moorsheep of the Veluwe, a heritage breed), and their wool was the first I ever spun.
But then your national holiday is in april, that's asking for rain 😅 the Lack of mountains is also felt in Belgium... The shepherds sound really cool!
@@MijnWolden That is true, April is unpractical. However the heir is born in December, so I dont think it'll get much better when she takes over...
But the Ardennen are mountains, right?
Ardennen are hills, there are no mountains in Belgium. And once you've experienced real mountains... The Ardennes just don't cut it anymore.
@@MijnWolden yeah thats my inexperience with actual mountains speaking... To me the Ardennen look like mountains :P
I live in the Willamette Valley in Oregon, in the US. Fiber arts fact: this area was a great place to grow flax for linen! There has been renewed interest in flax farming here in recent years, and I would love to see a local fiber economy really take off here again.
Yes to local fiber economies!
watching your old videos is so worth it xD Hallo Nachbar! i love this
Just don't cringe too much if you're getting to even older videos :D
I live in central Virginia near the city of Charlottesville, known for the University of Virginia and for Thomas Jefferson (not for white supremacists, global friends. Most were interlopers who came into our fine and gentle city). Lots of history in my area involve the men and women responsible for our revolution and independence from England. Naturally, colonial history includes fiber arts so that’s how I became interested in spinning - at an historical demonstration. I have also done some demonstrating myself.
My husband grew up on Tin Tin. We have all the books from the 70’s and were excited for the animated series in the 90’s. (Have all the CD’s, too)
I find it interesting that your part of the world remembers the fiber arts more than mine. While, yes, we have the Lakenhallen and some textile history museums, but the living history one in my neighbourhood doesn't have a spinning demonstration... (I don't have the time for it, because I would gladly help them out otherwise)
I just know that St. Gallen was its embroidery (according to our dear friend wikipedia, embroidery was the largest export branch of Switzerland around 1910!), and Michelle Obama wore some on her husband's inauguration day.
Sankt Gallen is a very familiar name to me as a church history nerd 😁
Very interesting! (And very impressive how you spin without watching and looking at the camera!)
Belgium also have some excellent cyclists
As a Flemish person I was a little bit confused with Milou... Kuifjes (Tintin's) dog is called Bobbie for us :D
@@MijnWolden I'm sorry, I watched it in French when I was a kid 🤷
@@catpawrosales4265 The struggles of being a multilingual country, I guess :D
Love the grasped spindle, I have several similar ones. Fun to spin with, once I got used to using one!
But unlike riding a bike you cán forget the motions 😅
Hi Jente, I hope you're OK xx ❣️❣️❣️
I don't know of any peculiar fibre tales, here in England.
Each rRgion or County was/is famous for its own Industry and its very own important part in the Industrial Revolution.
I could go on, but I won't has we'd be here until the end if the year.
Thankyou for sharing some of your Cultural History. And more importantly the Tour de Fleece.
Your finished Bobbin looks Amazing, as does the 2 small Skeins you spun on your Spindle.
I hope you don't suffer from not having to Spin everyday, although you probably do anyway.
I hope you can take some well deserved rest. 💤
Happy Spinning Sweet Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰🌞
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🐕
No withdrawal symptoms yet, I've actually been glad to have some time to knit now 😁
I am from Australia. I think, but don’t quote me, we hold the record for the fastest sheep to sweater knit.
That's a cool record 😎
I know this video is quite old, but I’ve just come across your channel via the algorithm’s suggestions. The timing is so serendipitous- I’m an avid spinner and knitter, and my husband and I are planning on visiting Belgium this year 😂
Have fun, what are you planning on visiting?
The spinning wheel looks awesome.😀👍👍
Thank you ☺️
@@MijnWolden You are welcome. I'll keep watching the next video of yours.🙏🙌🙌🙏
was spinning with you to day . looking good
Happy spinning 🥳
We made it to the end of the men's TdF! Congrats on getting so much edit/spinning/filming done for three full weeks. Now be sure to give yourself a good rest!
One fun Chicago fiber fact is that we're currently in the beginning of the Chicago yarn crawl!
Yarn crawl? Sounds like me at the end of TdF but that's probably not what that is 😁
@@MijnWolden A bunch of the Chicago area yarn stores get together and commission art for special tote bags, and raffle off gift baskets, and there's 10% of yarn at those stores. Depending on the number of stores you go to, you can get entered in the raffle for different prizes. It's just a fun yearly event, and you can choose your own adventure for how intense you want to be about it.
Oooh that sounds Nice!
Chocolate! You forgot Belgian chocolate
True! Belgian chocolate is the very best!!
Ohno my lactose intolerance is showing, I don't get to eat chocolate very often 😅
❤ I realy liked this video. Heard some lovely historie ( we did not learn in the Netherlands! 😅 )
"Van de regen in de drup" zeggen we hier ook in Noord Brabant. ☺️ See you in the next video
It would surprise me if you did. The Netherlands didn't accept our independence until 1839 😂
@@MijnWolden about fiber art. Had to ask my mam. Here we used to crochet curtens. "Valletjes"
The type of curtens that are no more then 35cm long and window wide.
You would see them or in the top part of the window or the bottom.
My mam made some very fine 'valletjes' with cotton... She showed me when i told here that i had made my first curten... The ones she made had me a little jealous, becouse of it's finenes. 😅 My reaction was 'oh, but that is not Crochet?! Wow! Pretty..' 😅 but it was crochet! And i loved it.
Now i practice finer crochet. So challenge accepted!
Have a good day/week, at working, filming and editing..
Love the annemadebag and all the spindletaletalk.❤ . Another great Jente update upon Belgian history. Like the part of 21rst national holiday, married to a Dutch guy.😂
At least he’s not king Willem 😉
Appreciate a little history. Especially church history, but a country’s history just as fascinating. Was lace ever used as a currency? I’m guessing it was, medieval times, just finished a book called ‘The Fabric of Civilization’ by Virginia Postrel. Very good. Thanks
I think I did read that royal and nobel families did gift it to one another when visiting, so that's some sort of currency?
Oh! What is Hallo Nagban all about? 🤣
''hallo Nachbarn'' is hello neighbour(s) in German 😁
@@MijnWolden thank you. I did not think that the transcript was correct and I think you said something about not having time to create your this time or something like that. I knew it was German and I knew it was cute but I didn’t know what you were saying. Thank you.
Oh nice, gossip about Belgium, I will have to get some popcorn for this! 😂
Hallo buurman! 😁 Is it gossip when you're part of it? 🤔
@@MijnWoldenDag burin! Maybe not gossip, but it was fun all the same! Even if I could hear in your voice over how tired you were on Friday. Take some time to rest now, and we'll see you in the next video!
No rest for the wicked 😅
No peculiar fiber story but congratulations on a Belgium tour de france femmes winner on stage 1
Lotte Kopecky is unmatched 😎 (and the last stage of the men's race was also won by a Belgian)