In her workshop at the Limerick Craft Hub, she showed me how the technique just involves a strip of silk, some lengths of spunwool, some water and a couple of hand sanders.
Leicester Civic Society's chair, Stuart Bailey, said the building on the Grand Union Canal, where wool was spun from the latter half of the 19th Century, was an important reminder of Leicester's heritage.
So does a touching child's tunic in linen the oldest spun fibre, older even than wool found in the necropolis of Zenobia, where a whole family had taken refuge.