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I enjoy spinning alone, but my joy multiplies when I share it with others. So I make no secret of the fact that I’m on a mission to introduce people to spinning. I love teaching people how to spin wool, and I never turn down an opportunity to start some
I have been aware of inkle weaving since the beginning of my fiber life and long admired the long strips of useful cloth.
“Geek” used to be a bad thing. Not anymore. What does geekiness mean, anyway?
In this excerpt from Kate Larson’s article “Spinning for Warp-Faced Bands,” get a sneak peek at Spin Off Spring 2018.
When I visited Shetland several years ago, I met one of its most famous handspinners.
Looking back at the abundance of handspinning tips published in the pages of Spin Off over the last 40 years, it became challenging to narrow it down.
Most of the weavers I met take drop spindle spinning for granted, the way that many of us take potable tap water for granted.
Meet Alan and Milissa Dewey, the fiber-tool restoration duo behind Bobbin Boy.We had to know more about these superheroes of the spinning world.
But I’ve gotten a lot of pleasure from making yarn this way. However you think about spinning and weaving, here is this weaver's approach to spinning:
Records from the distant past don't say much about women, yet every now and then we get fleeting glimpses of the history of textiles.
