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Lunar Society

from £3.50

Birmingham’s Lunar Society was an informal society of the prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment and included industrialists, philosophers and intellectuals. They met regularly between 1765 and 1813 and took their name from the fact that they met during the full moon, which was the easiest and safest way to travel after dark in the absence of street lighting.

Prominent regular members included Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Samuel Galton Junior, Joseph Priestley, James Watt, Josiah Wedgewood and William Withering. Other members included John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, James Brindley, James Hutton, Benjamin Franklin and William Herschel.

Meeting venues included Matthew Boulton’s home, Soho House in Birmingham, Erasmus Darwin’s home in Lichfield and Samuel Galton’s home, Great Barr Hall near Walsall.

The shades of grey indicate the brightness of the moon during it’s phases, from brightest at Full moon to darkest at New moon. Sheepcote Street is a street off Broad Street in the City Centre, and the undyed yarn is the colour of a Sheep’s coat. ‘It’s Black awer Bill’s mother’s’ is a local saying which means that the clouds are very dark and rain is imminent!

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Birmingham’s Lunar Society was an informal society of the prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment and included industrialists, philosophers and intellectuals. They met regularly between 1765 and 1813 and took their name from the fact that they met during the full moon, which was the easiest and safest way to travel after dark in the absence of street lighting.

Prominent regular members included Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Samuel Galton Junior, Joseph Priestley, James Watt, Josiah Wedgewood and William Withering. Other members included John Baskerville, Thomas Beddoes, James Brindley, James Hutton, Benjamin Franklin and William Herschel.

Meeting venues included Matthew Boulton’s home, Soho House in Birmingham, Erasmus Darwin’s home in Lichfield and Samuel Galton’s home, Great Barr Hall near Walsall.

The shades of grey indicate the brightness of the moon during it’s phases, from brightest at Full moon to darkest at New moon. Sheepcote Street is a street off Broad Street in the City Centre, and the undyed yarn is the colour of a Sheep’s coat. ‘It’s Black awer Bill’s mother’s’ is a local saying which means that the clouds are very dark and rain is imminent!

Yarn

100% Bluefaced Leicester 4 ply / sock 20g skeins (approx 70m)

Available to order in 100g skeins using the dyed to order service.

Click here to have your yarn wound into cakes.

Our non superwash yarn is spun in Yorkshire from British fleece and hand dyed in small batches in Birmingham. Whilst colour consistency between batches is good, due to the dyeing process no two skeins will be identical and there may be slight colour variations between batches. It is therefore recommended that you buy enough yarn from the same batch to complete your projects and that you alternate skeins every other row.

Once you have completed your garment, it is recommended that you handwash your finished item in lukewarm water with your wool wash of choice and lay your washed garment flat to dry. Although the yarn is thoroughly rinsed after dyeing, some slight colour bleed may occur at first wash.

I photograph in natural daylight, however colour variations can occur between monitors.