About Lorna Shannon

Lorna Shannon moved from the Yorkshire Pennines to the Antrim Hills some 20 years ago. Having inherited a spinning wheel, she taught herself to spin and then to weave. Lorna takes great delight in skirting, scouring, drying and carding the wool before spinning, plying and weaving it into fabric without any impact to the environment because the scouring water and parts of the fleece that can’t be spun are used on the garden as mulch and feed.

Lorna takes native breed wool from local farms local to a mill to be spun. She dyes the yarns selling them on local artisan markets, or weaving them into fabric for scarves, throws and cushions. In her current ‘flock’ are Hill Cheviot, Jacobs and JacobsxBFL.

Lorna believes that we need to look more closely at the way we produce fabrics, the way we support our farmers as custodians of the landscape and the way we look at our heritage craft practices.