AskTheBellwether's Fiber Mine

Portuguese Spindle blog, by Tita Costa

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:43:29 -0800

A nice collection of posts on the Portuguese spindle, distaff and plying tool.

photo2009-12-12T23:55:08-000002 (via Elda2009) An interesting...

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:47:08 -0800

photo2009-12-12T23:55:08-000002 (via Elda2009)

An interesting way to group yarn into stripes for dyeing … several more photos of the holder are shown in her flickr Queue.

Make your own PVC charka by Sorcha Fhionn

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:44:45 -0800

Make your own PVC charka by Sorcha Fhionn:

Instructions for assembling a charka or great wheel from PVC, a bicycle rim, a knitting needle, and a few other oddments. Looks like fun!

digitalnabi's blog: Technique: Gradient Carding Hand-Dyed Fiber

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:31:09 -0800

digitalnabi's blog: Technique: Gradient Carding Hand-Dyed Fiber:

An interesting how-to on turning space-dyed roving into a color-gradient and the lovely scarves spun and knit from them.

The ShizzKnit: iSpin Toolkit for iPhone!

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:20:36 -0800

The ShizzKnit: iSpin Toolkit for iPhone!:

A pretty cool app for the techie spinners out there with iPhones or the iPod Touch

Baltimore Guild Spinning Certificate Program

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:53:12 -0800

Baltimore Guild Spinning Certificate Program:

An interesting and thorough self-study program for spinners, designed to help them attain mastery of spinning. Similar to the HGA’s COE program.

Zij maakt het: De "ninja's"

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:53:57 -0800

Zij maakt het: De "ninja's":

The pictures of these Dutch handcarders in operation almost remove the need to run this post through translate.google.com …

Jazzturtle Creations: How do I do it? The In's and Out's of Corespinning, Spinning Sequins & Adding in unusal objects. Techniques & Tricks!

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:58:53 -0800

Jazzturtle Creations: How do I do it? The In's and Out's of Corespinning, Spinning Sequins & Adding in unusal objects. Techniques & Tricks!:

A great video series on spinning core yarn with add-ins

Trenchwork : Still Batty . . . and master spinning

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 08:24:25 -0800

Trenchwork : Still Batty . . . and master spinning:

Interesting insights on two American correspondence master spinners’ courses.

A Charmed Wife: Extraordinary Measures

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:52:45 -0800

A Charmed Wife: Extraordinary Measures:

Some notes on using various body dimensions and money as fill-in measuring devices when the tape measure just isn’t available. A quarter’s diameter is an inch — that was good to know!

The Plinth Project features a spinner

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:16:37 -0700

The Plinth Project features a spinner:

The plinth project in the UK puts real humans up on plinths where statues usually are. This one is a spinner, spinning for an hour on her wheel. Yay spinners!

At the American Museum of Natural History, Gossamer Silk From Spiders - NYTimes.com

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:39:19 -0700

At the American Museum of Natural History, Gossamer Silk From Spiders - NYTimes.com

Woolcombing Part 1 (via ADHUK) … an excellent video on the...

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:35:13 -0700

Woolcombing Part 1 (via ADHUK) … an excellent video on the whole process on English combs.

Loxosceles - $15 Wool Combs (Some Assembly Required)

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:25:29 -0700

Loxosceles - $15 Wool Combs (Some Assembly Required):

Make your own wool combs — terrific for the DIY crowd!

A simple nalbound treasure pouch

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:15:22 -0700

A simple nalbound treasure pouch:

An article in Piecework 1994, now up on the Interweave website, on making a little amulet pouch in simple nalbinding.

Valkyrie's Turkish Spindle Instructions (PDF)

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 08:00:06 -0700

Valkyrie's Turkish Spindle Instructions (PDF):

A nice little booklet on spinning with a Turkish spindle.

Dye Techniques

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:19:34 -0700

Dye Techniques:

an interesting blog of dye techniques, mainly acid dyes on sock yarns.

Dyer's Pot

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:10:42 -0700

Dyer's Pot:

Natural dye plant information site

4096 Color Wheel Version 2.1

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:21:57 -0700

4096 Color Wheel Version 2.1:

A fun interactive color wheel, that has the plus of giving you the web color-codes too. saturation/value tool, too, and it’s using subtractive (i.e. pigment) color combining.

Kiton Acid Dyes Rainbow Dyeing

Thu, 28 May 2009 19:25:48 -0700

Kiton Acid Dyes Rainbow Dyeing:

Cushings Dyes are Kiton Acid Dyes … their best colors to use as mixing primaries are (light) Canary, Cherry and Peacock, and (dark) Yellow, Blue and American Beauty.