{"id":3182,"date":"2011-09-22T11:12:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T11:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2011-09-22T11:14:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T11:14:19","slug":"the-wool-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=3182","title":{"rendered":"The Wool Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Discovered whilst tidying the studio; hoarded WOOL-THEMED-ITEMS. Firstly, a poem by Seamus Heaney, photocopied from I’m-not-sure-where.<\/p>\n

The Wool Trade<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘The wool trade’ – the phrase
\nRambled warm as a fleece<\/p>\n

Out of his hoard.
\nTo shear, to bale and bleach and card<\/p>\n

Unwound from the spools
\nOf his vowels<\/p>\n

And square-set men in tunics
\nWho plied soft names like Bruges<\/p>\n

In their talk, merchants
\nBack from the Netherlands:<\/p>\n

O the hamlets where
\nHills and flocks and streams conspired<\/p>\n

To a language of waterwheels,
\nA lost syntax of looms and spindles,<\/p>\n

How they hang
\nFading, in the gallery of the tongue!<\/p>\n

And I must talk of tweed,
\nA stiff cloth with flecks like blood.<\/p>\n

The phrase “rambled warm as a fleece” is especially comforting in this increasingly cold days of Autumn I feel.<\/p>\n

Secondly, a small flier from this place<\/a>, where I took this photo back in 2008 on one of the Sussex visits I made to research this article<\/a> for Twist Collective. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

That is all, or I shall miss the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…of woolly goodness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[657,636],"tags":[2808,2809,2811,2810],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knitting","category-valuing-reality","tag-seamus-heaney","tag-the-wool-trade","tag-the-woolpack","tag-the-woolpack-inn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmise-Pk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/woolpack.jpg?fit=950%2C767&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3190,"href":"https:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions\/3190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}