Rosie is a seamstress, farmer and flax enthusiast, currently doing a PhD in Textiles Engineering at Heriot-Watt Uni.
Open-Source Textile Mills
May 23, 2026 @ 2:20 PM - 2:40 PM GMT+2 Add to Calendar
Fantasy Fibre Mill will present videos and yarn samples from our farm scale machines for processing flax, wool, hemp, cotton and cattails from raw material into yarn. We will also discuss the opportunities and obstacles we’ve encountered doing international open-source co-design between the EU, UK and USA.
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Rosie Bristow
Nick Evans
Nick is a maker, sewer, engineer and gardener. He’s busy developing machinery for small scale, decentralized textile manufacturing!
Laura Schumaker
Laura is a mender, mechanical engineer, textile magpie, autodidact, and descendant of Flemish flax-workers.