From lampshades to rugs

This week has seen us start several orders and complete others.  Our specialised fabric we prepare for a US window treatment company requries several stages of different processes before it is ready to be dispatched.  In order to settle the fabric and keep it quite stiff we starch it and then make different sized openings in the weave using large needles.  The creates a unique pattern in the fabric which will ultimately be pressed between two sheets of a stiff laminate (fortunately we have nothing do to with that part!)  

It is a group effort.  We area also crocheting raffia around some lampshades, weaving a raffia carpet and Sitakele is working with silk to make silk scarves.  I like the activity and variety of products that we make.