I may be
Morpeth’s first ‘Green’ Mayor but Woodhorn Matters and the generations of
people who have been making proggy mats are the real recyclers – making useful
and beautiful things out of scrap material and wool.
Woodhorn
Matters was set up to help revive a craft which has been part of northern
culture for centuries. Dating from times when people couldn’t afford to waste
anything with thrift and recycling essential not just trendy virtues, proggy and
hooky mats became oldfashioned and unpopular through the 1950’s and ’60’s and
have only in the last couple of decades come back into style again.
Now modern designs
and fabric colours mean that humble proggy mats can be superb works of art.
They prefer
to use wool rather than cotton or synthetic fabrics – and they are always The group started off based in Woodhorn
Museum and although they now meet in Morpeth Methodist Church, they’ve kept the
original name. They are always happy to welcome new members – and because they
prefer to use wool rather than cotton or synthetic material – there’s always a
demand for old fabric and yarn.
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