Get your free eBook to learn to felt fiber and felt yarn! Felt is probably one of the most ancient of techniques used to make cloth from animal fibers. It is likely that our most ancient of ancestors unwittingly created felt when they wore animal pelts close to their bodies—their sweat, movement...
Being neighborly with pails of vegetables and a spinning book My neighbor knocked on my door with a book in hand. She likes to go shopping at flea markets and on a recent trip she found a slim volume of Your Handspinning by Elsie G. Davenport published in Great Britain in 1953, and then in the United...
On the Cover: Hyde Park Stole by Anne Podlesak DEPARTMENTS Editor's Page Letters As the Whorl Spins Reviews Get This! Abbreviations Advertisers' Index Classified Ads Seasons Collars by Joan Sheridan A Link to Spinners Past by Ercil Howard-Wroth Restoring the Jane Austen House Museum Spinning...
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on May 23, 2013
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We know what it means to pour your heart and soul into a functional piece Unknown Navajo Artist, Blanket, Chief’s Style–Third Phase, 1860s. Wool and dye. Denver Art Museum; Native Arts acquisition funds. The textile community in Colorado has been buzzing for the last several months about...
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Amy Clarke Moore
on May 22, 2013
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With all the great spinning workshops that Interweave kee ps putting out, my video library is outgrowing my bookshelf space. Fortunately, the folks in our online education department have come up with a brilliant sol ution. They've just launched our new Craft Daily site! This means that I can watch...
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Amy Clarke Moore
on May 15, 2013
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