When I visited Shetland several years ago, I met one of its most famous handspinners.
Looking back at the abundance of handspinning tips published in the pages of Spin Off over the last 40 years, it became challenging to narrow it down.
Most of the weavers I met take drop spindle spinning for granted, the way that many of us take potable tap water for granted.
Meet Alan and Milissa Dewey, the fiber-tool restoration duo behind Bobbin Boy.We had to know more about these superheroes of the spinning world.
But I’ve gotten a lot of pleasure from making yarn this way. However you think about spinning and weaving, here is this weaver's approach to spinning:
Records from the distant past don't say much about women, yet every now and then we get fleeting glimpses of the history of textiles.
Then Athens and the city-state of Sparta got into a long conflict, the Peloponnesian War, and that's where our latest story about women's work comes in.
Spin Off magazine is turning 40! We’ll observe it officially with the Fall 2017 issue, but at this age, you should never wait to celebrate.
If fiber is your thing, a yearly pilgrimage to the local sheep and wool festival is a must! Attending the festival with limited funds?
Learn a free spinning technique today! The How to Ply Yarn eBook will teach you everything from plying on a Drop Spindle to creating plied yarn on a wheel.