Hankering for Yarn

Sourcing Silk for spinning for the Crocheted Butterfly Shawl

by Noreen on July 11th, 2006

People have been asking me for sources for silk to spin.

So, I did some looking on the web.

http://www.woolery.com/Pages/fibers.html#exotic
looks scrumptious, and they assured me that everything on the site is available.

And, when I wrote to Treenway Silks

http://www.treenwaysilks.com/fibres.html

I learned that not only do they have their splendiferous silks, but, there’s a great tutorial page:

http://www.treenwaysilks.com/inout_spinning.html

and they like to feature photos of people’s work on their site, if people have used their silks.

http://www.treenwaysilks.com/gallery.html

The tutorial is focused on wheel spinning, but also has lots of great info that is transferable to spindle spinning. (If you are a spindle spinner. Which is how I mostly spin.)

Spin spin spin!

That reminds me of a fragment of a Rumi poem:

I think it goes:

‘we came whirling out of nothingness,

scattering stars like dust………”

Must find that again…….

Happy spinning everyone!

hugs all round

Noreen

www.crone-findlay.com

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