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Spinning effortlessly and naturally

In our new video with Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez, shares the knowledge that she began storing up when she was only eight years old, tending sheep on the slopes around her native Chinchero, Peru, with Linda.

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Published May 17, 2013 6:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: handwoven, Plying, Natural Dyes, Dyeing, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Handspun, Spinning, Dyeing Yarn

Time to relax or get back to work?

Spend a relaxing day watching others spin Spend the day with Norman Kennedy and a song spinning. In Europe, in olden times, spinners had a break from their spinning during the celebration of Christmas. But the day after Christmas, they were admonished...

Published Dec 26, 2012 6:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: handwoven, Wool Processing, Drum Carder, Spinning Wheels, Handspun, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, Carding and Combing, Spinning, Processing Fiber

Just in Time

Our CD collections might just save you, too.

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Published Feb 27, 2012 6:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: handwoven, Spin-Off Magazine, Spinning

SpinKnit, an e-What?

Linda introduces SpinKnit, a new eMag from Interweave.

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Published Nov 30, 2010 11:00 PM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: handwoven, Natural Dyes, Dyeing, Spin-Off Magazine, Spinning, Dyeing Yarn

Give yourself a simple gift

Give yourself a simple gift Rita shows her New England Autumn Color with a woven rug. A handspun, handwoven pillowcase — how dreamy! Lovely garments from Rita's wardrobe. I can count on my two hands the number of projects I have woven or knitted...

Published Oct 27, 2010 6:00 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: handwoven, Plying, How To Spin, Spinning Wheels, Handspun, Types of Yarn, Spinning

Handspun Immersion

Spinning with Rita Buchanan Imagine this: you sit down for dinner at a table set with your handspun, handwoven table runner and napkins. You clean up the kitchen wearing your handspun, handwoven apron, and dry dishes with your—you guessed it—HS...

Published Aug 4, 2010 9:17 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: handwoven, Worsted, Plying, Wool Processing, Drum Carder, Handspun, Spinning Wool, Merino Wool, How-To, Carding and Combing, Types of Yarn, Spinning, Processing Fiber

Why Spinners Weave

I'm sitting in Sara Lamb's class at SOAR 2009 in Sun River, Oregon. Outside, the aspens are golden, the sky is hazy blue, the pines are dripping rain from last night's shower. Inside, sixteen would-be weavers are sitting, transfixed. These...

Published Nov 4, 2009 8:35 AM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: handwoven, SOAR, How-To

All About Fiber

When we learned that 2009 was to be the United Nations’ Year of Natural Fiber , our first thought was, “Wow! What can we do that’s really special?” Our second thought was, “Wait a minute—we’re about natural fiber...

Published May 27, 2009 12:58 PM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: handwoven, Plying, Natural Fiber, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Handspun, Spinning Silk, Types of Yarn, Spinning, Processing Fiber

Goodbye, spindle spinning

Last post, I was asking the world at large whether men of the Guatemalan highlands still spin wool on drop spindles, as they did when Olive and Harry Linder visited there in the late 1970s. Having spent several days chasing the answer, I have to say it’s...

Published Feb 18, 2009 1:16 PM by Linda Ligon

Filed under: handwoven, Spinning Fiber, Spindle Spinning, Drop Spindle, Spinning Cotton, Handspun, Spinning Wool, Spinning

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