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The pre-order of the first Alte Künste Advent Calendar sold out within 4 weeks!This was way quicker than I had expected – thank you for all your enthusiasm. I am absolutely flattened and happy that there are some many advent calendar lovers out there. By now the dye-pots are bubbling for you, so that the […]

Due to high interest in this class we will be offering 2 dates for this class:30 November and 1 December 2019 One day workshop on Indigo Dyeing in Cologne We will be starting an indigo vat from scratch together and keep dyeing with it for the day. This class is all about you getting to

2nd weekend of October is the date for the woolmarket in Vaterstetten – I have heard a lot about this fabulous yarnfestival over the years and this year was the first time for Alte Künste – Ancient Arts to take part! The woolmarket takes place at the Reitsberger Hof – a large farm with riding

I am super excited! This is the first time I am taking part in FibreShare – you can still signup on the er FibreShare-Seite until 20 May 2018. What’s it all  about? It is an international fibre exchange – you send yarn or fibre to an asigned person and somebody else sends you a package with yarn,

Wow – we had two fabulous days at Oberstdorf. Actually it was three days for me counting all my travels to get there and back home again. The Allgäu Needlestiches take place at the ice rink at Oberstdorf each year – and I was excited to be part of the yarnfestival this year for the

Over here in Germany everythings comes to a halt – more or less – with a long weekend off, shops & offices are closed, people visit family or simply take a holiday with spring approaching (though its really cold this year). So feel free to use your free-time to check out my  etsy-Shop with the coupon-code OSTERN2018 for a

It is finally coming true – it has been in the making for a long time, but here we are now: Alte Künste – Ancient Arts‘ homepage had been more or less unchanged since 2011, but now we are finally upgrading the system! (I am so excited, can you tell?) So, the updating has 3

Fruity Knitting visited the Aschaffenburg Yarnfestival – and you can come along! Come on a stroll around the Wollfest Aschaffenburg – one of the really lovely local yarnfestivals in the area. Fruity Knitting took the time to talk to a lot of the vendors at Aschaffenburg. What a great chance to have a look at