By Bernie Bell. I’ve started reading ‘Powsels and Thrums’, Alan Garner’s most recent book.  Mr. Garner explains that in home-weaving powsels and thrums were the oddments of cloth and thread which the weaver would keep for their own use, and that by skilful use of these, families could be clothed.  Using bits to make a … Continue reading ‘Powsels and Thrums’ – Begins