Whitehaven
Laura Rosenzweig
Mill Shop
How to find us
Lake District
National Park
Egremont
You can buy a broad range of craft and
locally made products in our Mill Shop.
A685
J38
A6
A683
A591
Coniston
hat and scarves
Angela Bradley
Lake
Windermere
farfield mill
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Kendal
A684
J37
Oxenholme
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Sedbergh
M6
A590
A590
Cowgill
J36
A65
A590
We are situated on the A684 Garsdale/Hawes Road just one mile
east of Sedbergh where there is ample free parking.A65
By car, leave the M6 at Junction 37 and drive 5 miles through the
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stunning Howgills
landscapeA683
to Sedbergh from where Farfield Mill
Morecambe
is signposted.
Lancaster
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Farfield Mill
is within
20 mins drive of: Kendal, Kirkby Lonsdale, Kirkby Stephen
40 mins drive of: Hawes, Penrith, Lancaster,
Ingleton, Windermere
60 mins drive of: Leyburn, Skipton, Carlisle, Ambleside
Mary Taylor
Helene Shovlar
Helene Shovlar
Weaving
Annie Hudson
The Mill is the home to two magnificent working Dobcross Power
Looms, often seen in action as our weaver produces rugs,
throws and travel rugs exclusive to Farfield. We can also weave
to commission (for small yardages). It’s a rare experience to see
these looms working in the United Kingdom. An early Whitney
Loom is also on display. Weavers using hand and floor looms are
frequently at work and are usually happy to talk to visitors and
answer questions.
Farfield Mill blanket
Farfield Mill blanket
Farfield Mill blanket
Laura Rosenzweig
Farfield Mill is situated just one mile east of England’s Book
Town, Sedbergh which is well worth a visit for its treasure chest
of book shops.
www.sedbergh.org.uk/booktown
winter/spring 2008
5 miles from M6 J37
open daily 10.00 – 17.00
Kirkby Lonsdale
Ulverston
The Tearoom at Farfield Mill is a subtle blend
of traditional country tearoom and licensed
restaurant with contemporary style.
Dent
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Millom
Barrow-in-Furness
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Garsdale
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Tea Room
arts and heritage centre
sedbergh, cumbria
Tebay
Windermere
A595
Our excellent range of products are now
available online in our eShop. The eShop
offers the same quality and variety as you
will find at the Mill, find out more at
www.farfieldmill.org
Kirkby Stephen
M6
A591
Ambleside
eShop
A66
Train stations
Oxenholme Station 12 miles Garsdale Station 6 miles
Kirkby Stephen 11 miles Dent Station 13 miles
www.farfieldmill.org
weaving
crafts
artists studios
tearoom
exhibitions
heritage
Access
We aim to be as accessible as possible, our facilities include:
disabled parking spaces, level access toilets, lift to all floors, guide
dogs and hearing dogs are welcome.
Laura Rosenzweig
If you have any further access needs, please call 01539 21958
or see a member of staff on arrival.
Adults £3
Concession £2.75
Children FREE
Last admission 4.30pm
Coaches are always welcome but please book in advance.
Registered Charity number 1026293
Exhibitions in the Howgill Gallery
9th February—9th March
3rd May—29th June
Same Difference
Mechanical Drawing
Brian Pike and Ed Kluz
The Schiffli Project
Farfield hosts a number of open studio
workspaces and the Farfield Artists who
occupy these can often be seen making
and creating in their studios. You can
buy work from our artists and they are
often happy to talk with visitors. Details
of all of the artists can be found on the
website: www.farfieldmill.org. As well
as our resident artists there are galleries
containing work for sale from makers and
craftspeople from around the region and
further afield.
Demonstrations are given throughout
the year, and you can regularly see rug
makers, weavers and embroiderers
at work.
Pots by Rebecca Callis
Farfield Mill is now a member of Arts Council’s Own Art, interest
free loans designed to make it easy and affordable for everyone
to buy original, high quality contemporary art.
Laura Rosenzweig
Explore the history of the Mill from 1837
to the present day. The exhibition centres
around the Farfield Mill of 1911 with
explanations of processes involved in
textile production, from shearing the
raw fleece to the finished cloth. The Mill
was eventually restored by the Sedbergh
and District Buildings Preservation Trust
in the 1990s.
Brian Pike
Ed Kluz
Mary Taylor
Heritage
Farfield Artists
Brian Pike and Ed Kluz are two North Yorkshire artists whose
shared fascination with early art has led them in different and
sometimes surprising directions. Both artists work with themes
of identity, change and transformation. Ed’s work is rooted in
our Medieval heritage. He seeks out the lost, forgotten and
overlooked. Brian’s work is also about transformation, but
focuses on the individual. His paintings are populated by a cast
of simple, naive little characters that could almost have stepped
out of a crude 16th century woodcut. Both have a fresh and
unique approach to colour, form and the quirkiness of life.
15th March—27th April
Shanties
Philippa Troutman
A touring exhibition originated by the School of Design,
Manchester Metropolitan University featuring:
Rowena Ardern, Jill Boyes, Nigel Cheney, Isabel Dibden Wright,
Stephen Dixon, Nina Edge, Kate Egan, Rozanne Hawksley,
Alice Kettle, Jane McKeating, Melanie Miller, Susan Platt,
Sally Morfill, Lynn Setterington and Alison Welsh.
The Schiffli Project documents and explores textile practice
and the creative process through the responses of a range of
practitioners to the UK’s last working Schiffli machine, held at
Manchester Metropolitan University.
Rebecca Callis
Angela Bradley
Farfield Mill, Garsdale Road, Sedbergh, Cumbria, LA10 5LW.
015396 21958 [email protected]
www.farfieldmill.org
Philippa lives in a railway house on the site of the former Shanty
towns of Ribblehead and her stunning prints, etchings and
drawings ensure that the hundreds of men, women and children
who contributed to the making of the Settle-Carlisle railway will
not be forgotten.
This beautiful exhibition combines the best of contemporary
printmaking by Philippa and exquisite bookbinding by Esther
Primrose with a well researched testimony to the makers of the
Ribblehead Viaduct.
The Schiffli is a unique, one-hundred year old multi-needle
embroidery machine capable of mechanically stitching repeat
patterns or images across a two-metre wide piece of cloth.
The stitched designs are created by moving a pantograph by
hand. Such machines were traditionally used to mass-produce
commercial embroidery. This exhibition brings together some
of the leading contemporary textile artists today and each has
approached the machine in a very individual way, bringing
something of their own practice to the machine and challenging
the usual pre-conceptions of commercial embroidery.