Hi, welcome to String Revolution. I'm Léan, I live in Dublin with my husband and two little boys, and I am a dangerous stringy subversive.
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A Beaded Box

That cluster of beading I showed you, from the Cork workshop – what did I do with it next?

It became the lid of a little box, which holds some earrings I made for my mother’s birthday.

The outer part is made of high-moral-fibre organic fair-trade cotton velvet, and the box is lined with [...]

String Songs: The Weaver and the Factory Maid

Look, look, it’s a series!

A little while ago I published my first audio post, featuring me singing “Tuirne Mháire”, a traditional Irish song about a spinning wheel.

This week I recorded a second song, “The Weaver and the Factory Maid” – as performed by those linchpins of English electric folk, the fabulous Maddy Prior [...]

Big Messes

Right. About that veiled reference in a recent post to other things I made in March.

It was all rather lovely, actually.

Some time in February, I saw a notice about the Cork Textiles Network‘s 2011 conference, Function & Form in Textiles, to be held on 5-6 March in Cork city. As soon as [...]