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As modern life creeps into the highlands, bringing mass-produced clothes, synthetic dyes and fast fashion, the ancient craft of handloom weaving is quietly fading. The skill, once taught from mother ...
Europe House opened its doors last night for the launch of Knitters of Dreams, an evocative solo exhibition by artist Sonja ...
Learn how Spinnova is revolutionizing the fashion industry with sustainable practices that minimize waste and water usage.
The modern-looking rattan chair floats above a display of its ancestral counterparts, ranging from an old-fashioned chair in ...
Oldham Council has announced a series of key developments as part of its Building a Better Oldham programme, revealing new ...
Exploring historic textiles, sustainable fashion, and the fiber arts through spinning, weaving, sewing, and yarn crafting. Here you'll find whimsical projects galore with some history bounding and ...
At their simplest, spindles are long, thin rods used to hold spun yarn. Eventually, weighted discs known as whorls were added onto spindles to create drop spindles; whorls help the spinner use inertia ...
Short-staple Spindles According to the ITMF’s report: “Shipments of new short-staple spindles fell by 15 percent in 2014 year-on-year and more than reversed the increase of 10 percent in 2013. The ...