Hand woolcombing and spinning
a guide to worsteds from the spinning-wheel
by Peter Teal
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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 woolcombing and spinning: A guide to worsteds from the spinning-wheel
1993, Robin and Russ Handweavers
Unknown Binding
in English
1566590523 9781566590525
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Hand Woolcombing and Spinning
September 1985, Blandford
Paperback
in English
0713716452 9780713716450
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Hand woolcombing and spinning: a guide to worsteds from the spinning-wheel
1976, Blandford Press
in English
071370814X 9780713708141
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Ill. on lining papers.
Includes index.
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| March 15, 2023 | Edited by grayautumnday | Added the 2005 25th year Revised Edition, brief thesis of the book, and the excerpted table of contents |
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