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Respect the Spindle: Spin Infinite Yarns with One Amazing Tool
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Respect the Spindle: Spin Infinite Yarns with One Amazing Tool Paperback - 2009

by Abby Franquemont

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With step-by-step instructions, this essential manual details the basic steps of using a hand spindle. Combining fascinating historical narratives with vivid photography, this all-encompassing tour of the spindle affirms the tool's enduring legacy.

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From the publisher

Enjoying a resurgence in popularity thanks to the current trend of DIY crafts, the hand spindle remains one of the most productive, versatile, and convenient tools for creating stunning fiber arts from home, as this beautifully illustrated guide from a veteran spinner and spindle aficionado demonstrates. With step-by-step instructions, this essential manual details the basic steps of spinning and then advances to the more complicated spinning wheel, showing how to use the spindle to make specific types of yarn, explaining traditional spindle spinning techniques, and detailing five simple projects designed to instill confidence in creating a variety of yarns with this simple tool. Combining fascinating historical narratives, traditions, and cultures from around the globe with vivid photography, this all-encompassing tour of the spindle also boasts easy-to-follow, contemporary techniques and styles that affirm the tool's enduring legacy.

Details

  • Title Respect the Spindle: Spin Infinite Yarns with One Amazing Tool
  • Author Abby Franquemont
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1St Edition
  • Pages 136
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Krause Craft, Loveland, CO
  • Publication date 2009-12-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781596681552 / 1596681551
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 8.5 x 0.4 in (22.86 x 21.59 x 1.02 cm)
  • Category Crafts / Hobbies
  • Library of Congress subjects Hand spinning, Spindle-whorls
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009024380
  • Dewey Decimal Code 746.12

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 04/15/2010, Page 86

About the author

Abby Franquemont was raised in the United States and the Andes, where she was taught to spin on a spindle at the age of five. She has been spinning, knitting, weaving, and crocheting for more than thirty years. She is a fiber artist, teacher, technical editor, and writer whose work has appeared in Spin-Off, Spindlicity, and Twist Collective. She lives in Lebanon, Ohio.

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