Some spinners are afraid to spin cotton. They’ve heard it’s too difficult. Fear not! Joan Ruane loves to teach how to spin cotton on a tahkli spindle. Over several decades, she has perfected her own techniques for spinning cotton and cultivated a pass
Whether you took it up last week or spun your first skein decades ago, do you remember what made you want to learn to spin yarn?
There is no other dyestuff like indigo: complex chemistry, a tendency to rub off, and irresistible shades of blue.
Listening to spinners speak to each other feels like trying to understand a foreign language. Here’s a list of my favorite handspinning terms.
It’s too cold to go biking past fields of yaks today, though, so I’ll sit down at another kind of wheel and start spinning yak fiber instead.
