Spinning on a Great Wheel: Norman Kennedy Shows How It’s Done
Spinning on a Great Wheel is something I haven’t tried yet, but spindle wheels seem to be making a comeback. For Norman Kennedy, they never went away.
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Spinning on a Great Wheel is something I haven’t tried yet, but spindle wheels seem to be making a comeback. For Norman Kennedy, they never went away.
On Father’s Day, I remember how I learned about cloth from my dad.
Whether you took it up last week or spun your first skein decades ago, do you remember what made you want to learn to spin yarn?
Listening to spinners speak to each other feels like trying to understand a foreign language. Here’s a list of my favorite handspinning terms.
This summer, I’ve spent more time working with and reading about cotton and flax than I typically do in my spinning life.
Hackles come in two types: a flax hackle has square tines clustered in several rows, and a wool hackle has cylindrical tines in only one or two rows.
Movement in the field caught my attention, and an animal stood up; I was in Alaska and the fiber at my feet was qiviut, the downy undercoat of the musk ox.
