Emonieiesha loves art yarns! She shares her tips for weaving with these striking, three-dimensional yarns.
A few of Michele Wipplinger’s close friends reflect on her life and passion for textiles and natural dyeing.
Sizing your singles yarn will not make a weak yarn stronger, but it will prevent some of the fuzzing due to abrasion, which is inevitable in all yarns as they are being woven.
I have heard from many friends during the past few weeks, and each has turned to crafting in their own personal way.
Sara Lamb is a textile teacher and mentor who has been fundamental to Devin Helmen's success in weaving and spinning for weaving.
When you spin yarn for a weaving project, it has a different quality than machine-spun yarn. It is an outward display of every moment you spend spinning, every breath, including all the flaws and inconsistencies of being human.
Linda Ligon wrote this poem and read it during the Schacht Spindle Company's 50th anniversary celebration in September 2019. We hope you love it as much as we do.
On July 14, France celebrates Bastille Day (or as they call it “Quatorze Juillet”), the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789 that marked a turning point in the French Revolution—well, the first of their revolutions, anyway.
Most handspinners aren’t just handspinners. Being a spinner is certainly enough, but most of us either come to spinning from another craft or take up another craft to use all that handspun yarn.
Dreaming up projects using handspun yarn is one of the joys of spinning. Judith MacKenzie shares her experience spinning fiber odds and ends for a beach sweater as wild as her beloved Northwest coastline.