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a guide to worsteds from the spinning-wheel

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An edition of Hand woolcombing and spinning (1976)

Hand woolcombing and spinning

a guide to worsteds from the spinning-wheel

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The fundamental source of instructions for home fiber artists on how to comb and spin true worsted yarn and thread. Great ink line drawings and B&W photos to illustrate processes described.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter
1. The Tools (Wool combs, pad, diz, oiler, and water spray)
2. Wool Sorting
3. To scour or not to scour
4. First steps in combing
5. Colored yarns
6. Twisting machines – – spinning wheels
7. Worsted spinning
8. How much twist?
9. A standard measure
10. A Miscellany (plied yarns, spinning attention, setting the twist, worsted yarns on the big wheel)
11. 25 Years On!
Appendices I-VI
Index

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Blandford Press
Language
English
Pages
184

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Subjects
Hand spinning, Wool-combing, Spinning, Wool, Fiber Arts

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Hand woolcombing and spinning
2005, Unicorn Books and Crafts, Inc.
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Hand woolcombing and spinning: A guide to worsteds from the spinning-wheel
1993, Robin and Russ Handweavers
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Hand Woolcombing and Spinning
September 1985, Blandford
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Hand woolcombing and spinning: a guide to worsteds from the spinning-wheel
1976, Blandford Press
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Ill. on lining papers.
Includes index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
746.1
Library of Congress
TT847 .T39, TT847

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184 p., [8] p. of plates :
Number of pages
184

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OL4599901M
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handwoolcombings0000teal
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LCCN
77362774
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150814
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