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WOOL PREPARATION & SPINNING xx SPINNING xx WOOL How to prepare wool for spinning: five easy steps. Fiber facts. Working with wool. Tips on selection, washing, storing, and dyeing. How to spin yarns for weaving linsey-woolsey. Spinning techniques for blending fibers and colors to create heathered yarn, tweeds or garnetted yarns, variegated or ombre yarns and interesting color blends. Details of how to handspin a singles wool yarn from medium fine wool and weave it into enough cloth for a pair of woman's slacks. Homespun wool and natural dyes. An introduction to wool preparation and spinning using the Navaho drop spindle. How to prepare and spin raw wool on a Penguin Wheel. Sheep-to-shawl competitions. How to prepare a team for participation. Covers team signs and banners, shearing, fleece choice, fiber preparation, spinning and weaving techniques, and shawl design. A fine thread. A description of spinning merino and a superfine merino called sharlea. Includes instructions for knitting a triangular head shawl in an eyelet leaf pattern. The edge is finished with crocheted picot edging. Woolen and worsted, the what, why and when. Definitions, fleece characteristics and information on preparation. Fiber blends of wool, silk and mohair. An examination of how fibers react together and tips on fiber preparation and spinning. Woolen versus worsted. How yarn structure affects wool fabric when fulled. How to hold "Woolworth" experiments in spinning, a group project designed to achieve excellence in spinning with wool. How to spin in the grease without carding. Emphasis is on preparation of the fibers by combing with a metal dog comb. Kiwicraft, a method of preparing wool for knitting by using only the hands to roll or twist the staples. How to process and spin wool the way the natives do in the Cuenca Valley of Equador. Beverly Royce's personal strategy for preparing fiber and spinning it. Applies especially to fine wools. Steps include washing, combing, making roving, spinning and plying. Tips on spinning cotton, linen, silk and wool. Wonderful worsted. Part 1. Handcombing and spinning techniques to produce worsted yarn. Wonderful worsted. Part 2. Alternate methods of woolcombing. Spinning worsted yarn. How to control "pilling" while spinning with wool. Five different ways to card and spin rainbow batts. Tips on spinning a wool embroidery yarn. Spinning with Icelandic wool which is composed of both a soft, fine downy layer and a long, coarser hair. Spinning "lopi" yarn from Icelandic fleece. Tips on blending goose down and feathers into wool and spinning it. Preparing and spinning wool in the Navajo way. Preparation and spinning of Cormo (Corriedale-Merino cross) and Mongolian combed cashmere. How to spin yarn from Falkland Islands wool. Tips on spinning Shetland, a short-stapled wool, into a worsted-like yarn. Spinning angora and silk/Merino wool blend. Accompanying article describes how to use the yarn in a knitted tam and muff. Tips on using hair conditioners as combing sprays when spinning wool. Tip on how to "doff" wool with a "diz," a disk with a hole in the middle through which fibers are pulled into a thin, untwisted, continuous strand. Man's gray ribbed cardigan, with zipper front and long sleeves, is knitted from four-ply, knitting-worsted yarn which was made by plying one strand spun from commercial alpaca top with three strands spun from a Romney fleece. Includes detailed explanation of fiber preparation, planning, sampling and spinning. Only general information is furnished on knitting, which was done in Moss Knit Rib. Tips on using human hair-care products for washing and controlling fleece and yarns. Single-handed spinning. A description of techniques developed for carding and spinning wool after one hand was amputated. Spinning novelty yarns for two shawls (1) Wool-mohair shawl (2) Silk shawl woven with smooth tussah singles in combination with a slubby yarn, double bound with commercial metallic thread. Only the spinning details are furnished. Five articles on sheep-to-shawl contests. Tip for preparing and competing. Different types of contests and requirements assessed. Straight from the sheep. Techniques for spinning "in the grease". Tips on fleece selection, sorting and preparing the wool, spinning and washing the yarn. When the mountain of wool get too big. A spinners' guide to processing services. Questions to ask yourself about what you have and what you want done. Crazy yarn. Spinner describes carding multicolored pieces of yarn into wool fleece and then spinning it into "crazy yarn." Includes pattern for a square-neck woman's vest made from crazy yarn and knitted in basket weave and moss stitches. A drying rack for fleece that anyone can make. Planning a V-shaped shawl for a sheep-to-shawl contest. Putting on the dog. How to wash dog wool (the shed undercoat of Samoyeds and Alaskan huskies) blend it with wool and spin both carded and uncarded versions. Scouring fleece. A beginner's guide to preparing raw wool. Details on washing, drying and hand-picking. Storage and salvage of wool fleece and other fibers. Offers advice on exploring bags of old fleece, identifying problems and determining what can be salvaged. Also describes ideal storage methods and suggests a recordkeeping system. Tips for spinning superwash wool top. Wall-mounted, folding drying rack for drying fleece. Information on how long fleece and fiber can be stored and how to protect it for longer "shelf-life". Advice on how a spinner can prevent color streaks and variations in handspun yarn made from either natural or dyed fleece. Advice on things a spinner can do to minimize pilling in a finished garment and tips on pill-removal. Tools for processing wool fleece described and an explanation on how preparation affects the yarn. Superfine merino. A comparison between spinning raw fleece and commercial top. Includes instructions for knitting Pendants, Little Shells, and Fancy Scalloped Edging patterns and for Lacy Scallops crochet pattern. Washing your wool fleece and getting it clean enough to send to a commercial processor for carding. The basics of blending and combining fibers before you spin, plying singles spun from different fibers and combining yarns in a project. How to handle a whole fleece. A checklist on selection and sorting. Essentials. Basic ideas, tools and terms for handspinners. How to spin, ply and finish wool yarn. Heat'em, Harley. A device to dry washed wool fleece quickly uses a plastic bucket outfitted with PVC elbow to accommodate the nozzel of a hair dryer. Evaluating the fiber diameter of a wool fleece. Judging by touch, the Bradford count system and micron testing. Beware the painted roving. A summary of lessons learned from spinning hand-dyed rainbow wool roving, some of the problems encountered and what not to do. How to spin wool using a distaff and drop spindle in the method used in Italy more than 70 years ago. Advice on a storage system for yarns and fleece. A look at Jacob wool. Suggestions on several ways to create interesting yarn with their black, white and variegated wool. | |||||||||
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