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Spinning in the Old Way: How (and Why) to Make Your Own Yarn with a High-Whorl Handspindle
Paperback
Crafts GeneralWeaving & Spinning
ISBN13: 9781635619836
Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Published: Aug 12 2025
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Spinning in the Old Way is master spinner and knitter Priscilla Gibson-Roberts' complete guide to the craft of taking unspun fiber and turning it into perfect yarns with simple, inexpensive tools. Whether you're a newcomer to fiber crafts or a seasoned knitter or spinner, this book is indispensable.
Using thorough instructions and clear, detailed illustrations, Gibson-Roberts demonstrates that spinning is simple to learn, easy to do, economical, versatile, and efficient. All that's needed to begin is a spindle, some fiber, and a length of wool yarn. The technique she presents will produce a variety of high-quality yarns-woolen or worsted, high-twist or low-twist, fine or bulky-which can be utilized anywhere for any amount of idle time.
Weavers and knitters alike will find nothing but pleasure in following this simple, straightforward high-whorl method. In no time, practitioners will be producing their own beautiful, durable yarn.
This book is also available from Echo Point Books as a hardcover (ISBN 1635619599).
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