Synthetic fiber spinning is a process in which an extruded liquid polymer filament is continuously drawn and solidified to form a continuous filament of
Here you'll find all my fiber for spinning and felting. My art batts are repeatable, but my hand-dyed top is mostly one-of-a-kind. - Hand-Dyed Yarn and Fiber Made by Purple Lamb Fiber Arts
About a year ago, Anne (otherwise known as bunnyspinner on Ravelry and Twitter) contacted me about writing an article on bast fibers for ...
Let's talk about processing cotton and linen - from harvest to fabric - in a home scale setting. Cotton harvest in Canada?
Plying Day
A close look at spinning Flax fiber into Linen. Enjoy. Here I use my Ashford Double Treadle Spinning Wheel with a Woolee Winder Flyer and Bobbin. Im working ...
Courses on demand - contact to arrange a date A fun day learning about flax, suitable for spinners who have mastered the basics £100 Flax We will look at spinning long line flax from a towel as well as making and dressing a distaff. We will card and spin tow - the short fibre from…
Apart from actually shearing a sheep or wooly animal (hopefully I will get to do this someday), I have officially worked through the entire fleece to yarn process! Recently I was given a bag of raw, stinky, dirty, greasy, lovely local sheep's fleece. Finally I began the project of processing it. Washing fleece is easier…
We often know about spinning across the top but seeing it done well can make it easier to put it into practice.
The milkweed plant produces a fiber that can be used by spinners. Fibers from hemp, flax, dogbane, milkweed and nettle have been used f...
Learn why which way a diz faces matters and why you should have a variety of sizes.
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Beautiful, old, spinning wheel:
Anyone can learn the fairly straightforward nettle fiber processing of extracting fiber from the humble stinging nettle.
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The stages flax goes through to become linen.
From flax to linen
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Hand dyed fibers for hand spun yarn, felting, weaving, or knitting. Created by Elsie B specializes in unique hand painted spinning fiber, combed top, and luxury wools for the creative fiber artist.
