Self-Sufficiency: Spinning, Dyeing & Weaving: Essential Guide for Beginners

In this comprehensive book, an expert textile arts instructor reveals everything readers need to know to make their own fabrics. This book explains where different fibers come from, how to grow and harvest your own vegetable fibers, and how to prepare them for spinning. The principles of spindle and spinning wheel spinning are covered, along with home dyeing using natural dyestuffs, and hand weaving with or without a loom. Finally, there are a number of simple projects, such as a rug, shoulder bag, bed cover, and jumper and mitts to put your newly learned skills to the test.

 

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Self-Sufficiency: Spinning, Dyeing & Weaving: Essential Guide for Beginners

In this comprehensive book, an expert textile arts instructor reveals everything readers need to know to make their own fabrics. This book explains where different fibers come from, how to grow and harvest your own vegetable fibers, and how to prepare them for spinning. The principles of spindle and spinning wheel spinning are covered, along with home dyeing using natural dyestuffs, and hand weaving with or without a loom. Finally, there are a number of simple projects, such as a rug, shoulder bag, bed cover, and jumper and mitts to put your newly learned skills to the test.

 

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Self-Sufficiency: Spinning, Dyeing & Weaving: Essential Guide for Beginners

Self-Sufficiency: Spinning, Dyeing & Weaving: Essential Guide for Beginners

by Penny Walsh
Self-Sufficiency: Spinning, Dyeing & Weaving: Essential Guide for Beginners

Self-Sufficiency: Spinning, Dyeing & Weaving: Essential Guide for Beginners

by Penny Walsh

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Overview

In this comprehensive book, an expert textile arts instructor reveals everything readers need to know to make their own fabrics. This book explains where different fibers come from, how to grow and harvest your own vegetable fibers, and how to prepare them for spinning. The principles of spindle and spinning wheel spinning are covered, along with home dyeing using natural dyestuffs, and hand weaving with or without a loom. Finally, there are a number of simple projects, such as a rug, shoulder bag, bed cover, and jumper and mitts to put your newly learned skills to the test.

 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781504800389
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 04/05/2016
Series: Self-Sufficiency
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Penny Walsh is the author of Yarn: How to Understand, Design and Use Yarn. A visiting lecturer in textile arts at several colleges in the U.K., Penny teaches and researches traditional techniques of dyeing and spinning, using ecologically sound ingredients and renewable sources. Part of the design group AO Textiles, she has worked on fabrics and yarns for Jean Muir, Pecler’s of Paris, Laura Biagiotti, The Royal Opera House, and Aveda Eco Fashion.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Fibre 8

Combing and carding 30

Spinning 42

Dyeing 58

Weaving 86

Projects 110

Suppliers and Resources 121

Glossary 124

Index 126

Acknowledgements 128

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