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Merino Mania: A Nineteenth-Century Fiber Craze
Merino’s rise to the top as a coveted fiber for spinners
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Merino’s rise to the top as a coveted fiber for spinners
Read about the fascinating history of silk arriving in the Americas.
Little is known about knitting designer Christine Duchrow, but in all, she produced about 100 leaflets between 1920 and 1940.
The authors in the Summer 2020 issue, each in a personal way, share pieces of their own handspun histories.
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Women would sometimes wear these muslin dresses in all kinds of weather—rain or shine. According to some sources, this led to an increase of respiratory illnesses dubbed “muslin disease.”
In the summer of 1996, I opened the door and welcomed temptation in. That was the first step toward building my giant yarn stash.
Revolutionary War reenactor Terri Drouin-Guerette shares some of her experiences showing people how to spin yarn at Old Sturbridge Village, a living history museum in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, in the Spring 2018 issue of Spin Off.
Maybe it’s because I’m the parent of a preschooler, but I think about lice a lot. Usually, of course, it’s less academic and more “Oh, no, there’s another outbreak at school. Child, get over here and let me check your head.”
With my job, you have to have a desire to learn on a daily basis. We are constantly presented with new challenges and problems to solve.
Terri Drouin-Guerette, a former SOAR (Spin Off Autumn Retreat) scholar and Interweave Yarn Fest instructor, shares how spinning satisfies her creative side.
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.
Then Athens and the city-state of Sparta got into a long conflict, the Peloponnesian War, and that's where our latest story about women's work comes in.