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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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Hand spinning, Wool-combing, Spinning, Wool, Fiber ArtsShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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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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1566590523 9781566590525
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Hand Woolcombing and Spinning
September 1985, Blandford
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0713716452 9780713716450
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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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