The Whole Craft of Spinning from the Raw Material to the Finished Yarn

The Whole Craft of Spinning from the Raw Material to the Finished Yarn
Author: Carol Kroll
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 52
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780486239682

You can master the timeless craft of spinning with this clear, easy-to-follow manual. Everything you need to know from set-up to finished product in order to create distinctive yarns for use in knitting, weaving, crocheting, needlepoint, embroidery, and macrame. Author's preface. 33 illustrations, 10 black-and-white photographs. Bibliography. Sources of Supply.

The Whole Craft of Spinning

The Whole Craft of Spinning
Author: Carol Kroll
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2012-03-08
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0486140474

Everything you need to know from set-up to finished product in order to create distinctive yarns for use in knitting, weaving, crocheting, needlepoint, embroidery, and macrame. Author's preface. 33 illustrations, 10 black-and-white photographs. Bibliography.

Spin Art

Spin Art
Author: Jacey Boggs
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1620333260

Jacey Boggs helps you bring textured and novelty yarns to the next level in Spin Art. Inside you'll learn all the secrets behind her exciting new fusion of traditional spinning and envelope-pushing creativity. The yarn styles explored in this comprehensive spinning guide are as well made as they are inventive. Jacey walks you through each of her techniques, with a refreshing mixture of quirky, fanciful, and unexpected designs that are always skillfully constructed. Inside you'll discover: • How to create innovative, eye-catching single and plied yarn styles, including wraps, beehives, bumps, racing stripes, loops, bubblewrap, multiplied, and more. • Detailed technical instruction with step-by-step photos with finished yarn and swatch close-ups. • Jacey's bright personality and motivational tips to inspire all spinning enthusiasts to unleash their creative spirit. Traditional spinners will love Jacey's adventurous spirit and attention to expert technique, while textured-yarn spinners will love Jacey's wild designs and solid construction. As a bonus, the instructional DVD provides additional handspinning demonstration and commentary to complement the techniques in the book. Jacey has bottled the energy and expertise of her highly sought after workshops into a personal, at-home workshop experience for you.

Spinning and Dyeing Yarn

Spinning and Dyeing Yarn
Author: Ashley Martineau
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Dyes and dyeing
ISBN: 9780764166075

Provides easy to follow step-by-step tutorials for preparing, dyeing, and spinning different fibers.

How to Spin

How to Spin
Author: Beth Smith
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2016-03-08
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 161212612X

Expert Beth Smith teaches you everything you need to know to spin your own yarn, from choosing a spinning wheel to every stage of preparing your fiber, plying, winding off, and finishing. Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions make it simple and easy!

Spinning Designer Yarns

Spinning Designer Yarns
Author: Diane Varney
Publisher: Interweave
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-09-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781931499392

This inspiring illustrated guide teaches experienced spinners to make beautiful designer yarns and encourages them to be more creative and have more fun with spinning. Handspun yarns can be white, lumpy, gray, and precise--or they can be as colorful and deliciously textured as the spinner's imagination. Presented are instructions on applying dye to fibers in new, exciting ways; predicting how novelty yarns will look in finished fabrics; blending fibers for color and texture effects; spinning singles and plied yarns; and using these fantastic new yarns in weaving, knitting, and crocheting. Spinners will also add corespun, boucle, snarl, knotted, and tufted yarns to their spinning repertoire.

The Ashford Book of Spinning

The Ashford Book of Spinning
Author: Anne Field
Publisher: Borgo Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1989-09-01
Genre: Hand spinning
ISBN: 9780809575503

Spinning is a practical, fascinating and satisfying hobby with continuing appeal in an age of mass production. It is a comprehensive spinning primer written by a leading New Zealand spinner with an international reputation as a teacher and craftsperson. This book describles a physical skill clearly and concisely and her instructions are illustrated by over one hundred step-by-step photographs and diagrams. In addition to advice on spinning wool with a variety of techniques, she offers chapters on the use of other fibers and novelty yarns, and on dyeing. There is also an introduction to the craft of felting and a useful selection of patterns for knitting , crocheting and weaving your own handspun yarn.

Start Spinning

Start Spinning
Author: Maggie Casey
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1620332000

For knitters, crocheters, and weavers ready to make their own yarn, this handy guide provides detailed instructions for spinning both on a spindle and a wheel, and offers a special section devoted to troubleshooting and wheel maintenance that keeps projects on track. It offers a comprehensive look at the various available fiber options, choosing and preparing each type of fiber for use, and crafting these materials into ready-to-work pieces. A final chapter on the various uses of spun yarn focuses on project planning, with definitions and context for measuring wraps per inch, determining yards for specific projects, and choosing a yarn size.

Learn to Spin with Anne Field

Learn to Spin with Anne Field
Author: Anne Field
Publisher: Trafalgar Square Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781570764929

A book on spinning basics for beginners from internationally acclaimed spinner and weaver Anne Field. With easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions, Anne guides the novice spinner through all they need to know to get started. She explains the spinning process and techniques, including preparation of fleeces, worsted and woolen spinning methods, plying, adjusting tension, treadling, skeining, drafting and blending as well as helpful advice about spinning wheels and how they work. A wide range of fibers suitable for spinning are featured--wool, alpaca, silk, mohair, cotton, angora, and synthetic and blended fibers--with details on the characteristics of each fiber and best spinning methods to use. Also included are many great projects with full instructions on how to use your newly spun yarns. Fully illustrated with full color photographs throughout.

Spinning Wheels and Accessories

Spinning Wheels and Accessories
Author: David A. Pennington
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2004-01
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780764319730

Over 350 color photos illustrate the American spinning wheel from 1775-1900, with substantial sections on fancy European wheels and accessories. Sections on Shaker wheels, patent wheels, famous makers, chair wheels, Irish castle wheels, double flyer wheels, and an appendix of 1000 makers and their marks. The pictured items are from important private collections that have never been seen before.