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Spinning Books
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Color and Spinning 240pg $26.95 A paperbound edition of Deb Menz's classic guide to color for handspinners is finally here! Menz draws on 20 years of experience teaching and experimenting with color techniques to offer a technically savvy yet accessible tutorial on working with color and fiber. |
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Color Works 152 pp $24.95 This is the first book to bring the principles of color theory down to a practical level and apply them to knitting, spinning, weaving, surface design (including stenciling and rubber stamping), hand- and machine-embroidery, beadwork, quilting, and paper collage. Basic color concepts are presented in sections on color description, values, contrasting and complementary colors, warm and cool colors, undertones, using color relationships, and much more. If understanding color is the bridge to creative expression, how did we ever live without this book?
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Wheel designer and maintainer of textile traditions, Alden Amos the recipient and evaluator of traditional wisdom lets no point go unexamined. This is truly a BIG book offering decades of experience in making and handling yarn. He’ll change your spinning for the better, whether you agree with him or not. |
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Spinning Designer Yarns 96pp $16.95 |
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The Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook 96pp$18.95 by Lynne Vogel The title gives you a big clue: this book is about sisterhood, sharing, crafting, giving, laughing. It’s also about spinning yarn and making socks—not just any old yarn or any old socks, but glorious, zany, wildly colorful yarn for perfect-fitting socks of character. Dip-dyeing, pour-dyeing, and hand-painting yarns or wool rovings is as easy as making homemade soup, whether you use commercial dyes or Kool-Aid®. If you like starting from scratch, spinning one-of-a-kind yarn is easier than you think. And the socks—a pair of well-crafted, perfectly fitting socks is one of life’s true luxuries. It’s all right here in this book.
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SPINNING WOOL BEYOND THE BASICS $28.95 by Anne Field Anne's book guides the intermediate spinner to spin and get what they expect by a careful study of wool, sorting, washing, and sheep breeds using photos and fiber specifications; spinning wheels and their part in precise spinning; yarn design and fleece preparation for worsted through woolen yarns, and suggested projects to support understanding of this craft of spinning. Learn to spin the best yarn possible for your needs from the breeds available. |
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UNDERSTANDING THE SPINNING WHEEL
$79.95 by Eric Corran This very important book has a split personality. Is it a technical manual for woodworkers on the most minute details of spinning wheel construction? Is it a complete history of the modern spinning wheel? Is it an advanced spinners' manual for the more proficient use and maintenance of their various wheels? Complete know-how for spinners to use in refining their skills is here. This is definitely the book for understanding the spinning wheel. |
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WEAVING, SPINNING, AND DYEING BOOK $40.00
by Rachel Brown This book covers so much. The author covers a great deal and does it well. You are shown "how-to," then given more than 50 weaving projects for such things as belts, sashes, stoles, handbags, wall hangings, pillow covers, tapestries. The step-by-step directions are crystal clear and thoroughly illustrated with drawings showing everything that must be seen to be understood. |
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A Handspindle Treasury:Spin-Off Magazine, 96pp,
$16.95. |
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Handspun Treasures from Rare Wools
96pp $19.95 Collected Works from the Save the Sheep Exhibit Edited by Deborah Robson Bringing together the art of spinning and wools from rare breeds of sheep, Handspun Treasures from Rare Wools catalogs the 29 touring pieces from the Save the Sheep Exhibit. It also includes photos and pieces that illustrate points about the rare-breed fibers and what makes them indispensable for contemporary handspinning.
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A NO-LATHE SAXONY-STYLE SPINNING WHEEL
CONSTRUCTION MANUAL 54pp $7.95 by Richard & Myrna Schneider This is a modified, modernized version of the traditional Saxony spinning wheel. With clear, measured drawings, photographs, and step-by-step instructions, the authors take you through the entire construction process. |
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HANDSPINNING: Advanced Techniques with Mabel Ross -VIDEO $39.95 by Mabel Ross $39.95 Review: This video takes you slowly, methodically and easily through the steps involved in creating worsted and woollen-spun yarns. Ms. Ross explains how to control yarn twist, ply yarns, and much more. |
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SPINDLE SPINNING: From Novice To Expert
$12.00 by Connie Delaney This is a manual for the spinner, who, like most spinners around the world do their spinning the time worn way on a weighted stick of some form or other. A very well produced text with good essays on spinning and clear line drawings and photos of the various processes and techniques, this slim tome will inform the novice and inspire the expert. |
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Hands on Spinning: Lee Raven, 120pp,
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HOW TO BE OWNED BY AN ANTIQUE SPINNING
WHEEL: A Practical Guide 96pp $19.95 by Peter H. Fowler This is a nice little guide book to familiarize the spinner and collector with the legacy of antique spinning wheels. It is not a how-to-spin book. It is a 'what is antique spinning equipment?' book: how to spot them, how to restore them, how to put them to use. The author examines wheels and spinners of all types, from all countries, all eras, with many old and some recent photos. Good reference book. |
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SPINNING WHEELS AND ACCESSORIES $59.95 by David Pennington & Michael Taylor |
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In Sheep's Clothing |
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Spin It 32pp $9.95 This little book will teach you all you want to know about handspindles and how to use them to make your very own yarn. Designed to appeal to the beginning spinner, tips and hints are provided that illustrate how easy, enjoyable, and relaxing spinning can be.
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Tops With A Twist 80pp, $14.95 . |
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Homespun, Handknit 160pp $21.95 More than a pattern book, Homespun, Handknit includes favirote designs, hints, and techniques from 50 experienced knitters and spinners. Projects range in difficulty from easy beginner pieces to advanced brainteasers.
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