Schacht adapted their spinning wheel to have the option of two treadles. In no time at all, the double-treadle model outsold the single-treadle by a mile.
I’d been lying to myself about my spinning. A few weeks ago a recent spin with a new-to-me spinning fiber opened my eyes to the truth: I have a type.
Like many of you, I started spinning on a drop spindle. And like many of you, I hated it. I gave my spindle to someone else, and that was the end of things.
My Shetland Half-Hap is finally finished—it was a fun handspun lace project from beginning to end.
Most fiber artists I know have a stash of loose ends, remaining half-balls of yarn from knitting projects or piles of thrums too beautiful to throw away.
Stephanie Johnson has been using handspun yarn and a pin loom to create a piece of handwoven art that recalls her family’s journeys. Read Part 1 of her article.
As far back as I can remember, the end of summer meant packing up the minivan to spend a week traveling around North America.
A well-preserved hat has allowed us to open a small window on life in the French colony of Louisbourg in the middle of the eighteenth century.
Woolen-spun yarn is often a soft single with comparatively more ply twist, so once your skein is pulled off of the niddy noddy, it will look like a mess.
