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Dye Recipes from Your Kitchen Cabinets

Nervous about natural dyes? Start with these resources, including a PDF full of dyeing instructions and tips.

Five Good Reasons to Buy and Use Mini Wool Combs

Wool combs may look scary, but once you try them, you’ll be hooked.

Spinning Tips: Troubleshooting

No matter how long you’ve been a spinner, there comes a time when your wheel won’t do what you want it to do. Here’s a handy checklist of solutions for the most common spinning wheel problems.

Suffolk, Tunis, Dorset: A Spinner’s Ode to “Meat Sheep”

Looking for socks that don’t slouch and sweaters that hold their shape? Give these sheep breeds a second look.

What is a bouclé yarn?

Sarah Anderson offers tips for spinning this textured yarn.

4 Reasons to Love Our (Free) Black Friday Features

What’s better than easy-to-come-by deals? Oh, yeah—free ones.

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Try a New Silk Prep: Kim McKenna’s Tussie Mussie

Struggling with silk slivers? Add this easy technique to your spinner’s toolbox.

What’s More Fun than Cooking at Thanksgiving?

Linda serves up a treat for your holiday weekend.

Memory: Spin Off Winter 2023

Crimp, resilience and connection tie the threads of memory together through fiber.

How (and Why) to Wind Charkha Singles onto Storage Bobbins

Can you use book-style charkhas for big projects? Yes, you can. Learn how I store my cotton singles for plying with this short video.