Respect the Spindle: Spin Infinite Yarns with One Amazing Tool

Enjoying a resurgence in popularity thanks to the current trend of DIY crafts, the hand spindle remains...
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Author: Abby Franquemont
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Language: English
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Respect the Spindle: Spin Infinite Yarns with One Amazing Tool by Franquemont, Abby

Respect the Spindle: Spin Infinite Yarns with One Amazing Tool

$256.28

Respect the Spindle: Spin Infinite Yarns with One Amazing Tool

$256.28
Author: Abby Franquemont
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Enjoying a resurgence in popularity thanks to the current trend of DIY crafts, the hand spindle remains one of the most productive, versatile, and convenient tools for creating stunning fiber arts from home, as this beautifully illustrated guide from a veteran spinner and spindle aficionado demonstrates. With step-by-step instructions, this essential manual details the basic steps of spinning and then advances to the more complicated spinning wheel, showing how to use the spindle to make specific types of yarn, explaining traditional spindle spinning techniques, and detailing five simple projects designed to instill confidence in creating a variety of yarns with this simple tool. Combining fascinating historical narratives, traditions, and cultures from around the globe with vivid photography, this all-encompassing tour of the spindle also boasts easy-to-follow, contemporary techniques and styles that affirm the tool's enduring legacy.

Author: Abby Franquemont
Publisher: Interweave Press
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 136
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 8.50w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781596681552


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/2010 pg. 86
Library Journal 02/01/2013 pg. 38

About the Author
Abby Franquemont was raised in the United States and the Andes, where she was taught to spin on a spindle at the age of five. She has been spinning, knitting, weaving, and crocheting for more than thirty years. She is a fiber artist, teacher, technical editor, and writer whose work has appeared in Spin-Off, Spindlicity, and Twist Collective. She lives in Lebanon, Ohio.

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