Hand Spinning: Essential Technical and Creative Skills

by Pam Austin

Create your own beautiful yarn and discover the peace of spinning

Hand spinning is a meaningful and timeless craft that can bring immense joy and satisfaction to a busy life.

• Gives clear and precise instruction for the long draw, worsted, and core-spinning techniques
• Outlines how to choose and prepare fleece, flax, silk, and camelid fibre for hand spinning
• Includes proven definitive colour skills that will personalize and enhance hand-spun work
• Describes dyeing animal and vegetable fibre and yarn, without special materials or equipment, using natural and synthetic dyes
• Encourages use of classic yarn structures as boucle, gimp, coils, and crepe as design features
• Individual hand-spun work illustrates the concept of art yarn and the design proess
• Suggests projects for yarn that has meaning, artistry, and purpose.

Hardcover. 144 pgs