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Carol Kroll:

The Whole Craft of Spinning
From the Raw Material to the Finished Yarn

Heft, ca. DinA4, 48 Seiten, 43 s/w Zeichnungen,
Dover Publications, 1981, ISBN 0-486-23968-3

Inhalt

:
I - The Story of Spinning
(early hand spinning, handspindles, spinning wheels,)
II - Preparing the Fiber for Spinning
(selecting the fiber, sorting, washing, adding oil, carding)
III - Spinning with the Drop Spindle
(attaching the lead, and joinging up; Spinning)
IV - Spinning on the Treadle Wheel
(attaching the lead, and joining up; spinning a woolen yarn; spinning a worsted yarn; problem beginners have)
V - Finishing the Yarn
(winding the yarn, plying the yarn, washing the yarn, storage of homespun yarn)
VI - Obtaining a Spinning Wheel
(how to shop for an old wheel, how to buy a new wheel, making your own spinning wheel)
VII - Spinning Other Animal Fibers
(dog and cat combings, goat hair, camel hair and down, deer and antelope hair, cow and horse hair, angora and other types of rabbit fur, other fur-bearing animals, human hair, fibers from birds)
VIII - Spinning Other Fibers
(flax, cotton, silk, jute, hemp, manila hemp, ramie, sisal, java cotton, cair, raffia, corn silks, milkweed floss, dandelion fluff, cattail fluff, thistle down, cottonwood fluff, synthetic fibers)
IX - Making Novelty Yarns
X - Using Your Homespun Yarns
(weaving, knitting and crocheting, needlepoint and embroidery, macramé)
Bibliography and Sources of Supply