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With the textile industry able to make cloth more quickly and cheaply than ever before, why make your own? The answer is simple: nothing could be more different and unique than hand-made textiles. Weaving your own textiles for use in clothing or furnishings is a rewarding and satisfying activity - with the added benefit of knowing that the whole process can be done just as well by hand, using almost no energy but your own! This book looks at where different fibres come from, how to grow and harvest your own vegetable fibres, 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 learnt skills to the test.
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Penny Walsh teaches and researches traditional techniques of dyeing and spinning, adapting them in the light of contemporary advances whilst retaining the quality of colour and texture. She uses as ecologically sound ingredients as possible and renewable sources, and endeavours to source animal fibres from breeds that are becoming rare because they are not commercial.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Marvellous introduction to the whole subject of working with wool to make your own yarn.
15 Feb 2011
Format:Paperback
This is a thoroughly enjoyable little book which is very accessible and easy to get into for the complete beginner to all things yarn. If you have always wanted to know how to go about making your own yarn but not known where to start, then this book is most definately the book for you. Straight to the point and also smaller than most other books of this type on the market (size wise) it is very portable and pops into your bag (or pocket) to go with you and be read anywhere.
Beautifully and clearly illustrated in full colour, all explanations are accompanied by highly informative pictures. Penny Walsh (the author) sets the scene by starting her discourse on the animals that provide the wonderful fibres, and unusually in books of this type, relates all to the natural world by combining both sources of yarn and sources of natural colouration as well as dyeing techniques. It is all related easily and with great clarity. So you end up with the whole picture from possibly keeping the animal yourself to processing its wool by collecting, carding, spinning, plying, and growing plants in your own garden, using them to dye your wool and ultimately producing the yarn you always wanted at your disposal at virtually no cost. And then what do you do with all that lovely yarn after you have had the intense fun of making it?. Penny shows you clearly how you can knit and weave with it and what it is possible to make (patterns and projects included!). I Love, Love, Love this book and cannot recommend it highly enough, especially to the textile student, beginner yarn enthusiast or even just to avid and curious knitters who are fed up with being ripped off for the very high prices of commercial yarn today. This book is a liberation and a triumph!!! Thank you Penny Walsh.
Beautifully and clearly illustrated in full colour, all explanations are accompanied by highly informative pictures. Penny Walsh (the author) sets the scene by starting her discourse on the animals that provide the wonderful fibres, and unusually in books of this type, relates all to the natural world by combining both sources of yarn and sources of natural colouration as well as dyeing techniques. It is all related easily and with great clarity. So you end up with the whole picture from possibly keeping the animal yourself to processing its wool by collecting, carding, spinning, plying, and growing plants in your own garden, using them to dye your wool and ultimately producing the yarn you always wanted at your disposal at virtually no cost. And then what do you do with all that lovely yarn after you have had the intense fun of making it?. Penny shows you clearly how you can knit and weave with it and what it is possible to make (patterns and projects included!). I Love, Love, Love this book and cannot recommend it highly enough, especially to the textile student, beginner yarn enthusiast or even just to avid and curious knitters who are fed up with being ripped off for the very high prices of commercial yarn today. This book is a liberation and a triumph!!! Thank you Penny Walsh.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Great book, not I think for the very new spinner/weaver, that said it is very much about getting information that is useable and understandable, I found it very interesting and will keep this as a brilliant reference book for future work. Nice set out, and great everyday information that will improve my spinning. I would say a very useful book for all.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This book was fun whilst concise. It covers all aspects of each subject,along with recommending suitable breeds of sheep fleece for beginners & beyond. Written in a down-to-earth manner,easy to understand & follow.
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