These artifacts help us better understand the importance of craft production, especially weaving, in the rural economies of the Iron Age. Alongside the weights, a wooden spindle was found, a crucial ...

Boulder's Schacht Spindle Co. is celebrating its 50th anniversary Friday ... The company at 5:30 p.m. also will honor many individuals who have helped educate people about spinning and weaving.

At 16” wide, it is ideal for weaving scarves, but lengths of finished weaving can also be sewn together into other items. Price: $180 at the Woolery Drop spindle starter kit ...

When Barry Schacht took a ride to Greentree Ranch in Loveland 30 years ago, he never guessed it would spin his life in a new direction. He just hopped in a van with several friends who wanted to ...

Eventually, weighted discs known as whorls were added onto spindles to create drop spindles; whorls help the spinner use inertia to spin yarn faster. During the hand-spinning workshops, led by ...

Schacht Spindle Co.'s new Zoom Loom is a great portable loom that improves upon the design of pin looms of the past. The loom, $39, is great for weaving 4-by-4-inch square coasters and squares for ...

Twelve-thousand years ago, people in a coastal village in the Levant used stone weights on their spindles to spin thread faster and more evenly—and, some archeologists are arguing, in the ...

We’re here weaving,” says Cristina Nicotra. ... She has a drop spindle in her lap, spinning yarn from a lump of black wool for her Brigid tapestry, of a sheep.