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Spinning BooksNEW! Creative Spinning
NEW! Teach Yourself Visually, Handspinning, Judith MacKenzie McCuin
The Ash Start Spinning
Spin It, Lee Raven
Color in Spinning, Deb Menz
Hands on
Spinning, Lee Raven Want to teach yourself how to spin? Look no further, this book has all the spinning instructions you need. Learn how to card, spin, ply and learn how to achieve a balanced yarn. Bonus: Section on fiber selection and preparation. Fun projects for handspun yarns included! One of the best spinning books for teaching yourself! 8 1/2 x 10 3/4, paperbound, 120 pages, color and b&w photos throughout.
Spindle Spinning, Connie Delaney
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Learn
to create appealing multi colored yarns with Alison Daykin and Jane Deane,
who have decades of experience spinning, weaving, and dyeing. Find out how
easy it can be to create personalized and gorgeous skeins of one-of-a-kind
fibers. Designed for complete beginners, this attractive guide offers 30
beautiful projects that teach a repertoire of skills on both the hand
spindle and spinning wheel. It starts with simple, basic combing, twisting,
plying, and finishing, then goes on to offer a primer on working with
fibers. All the chapters are organized by yarn type, including short wool
and down, medium fine wool, long wool and luster, hill and mountain, rare
wool, animal hair, silk, and vegetable fiber. 
A
great new way to learn how to spin! Detailed color photos
and instructions provide a book filled to the brim with
information. Short two page lessons are easy to master and
allow you to build your skills at your own pace. 
Based on Maggie's time-tested Spinning 101 workshop,
which she has taught for twenty-two years, readers will learn to spin
the yarn of their dreams beginning with an introduction to the various
types of fibers available, choosing and preparing (or buying) fiber with
which to spin, and detailed instructions for both spinning on a spindle
and spinning on a wheel, with extra detail on Wheel 101 complete with
plenty of photos. Maggie also offers a special section on
troubleshooting and wheel maintenance, plus tips and tricks for creating
better yarns. Then she moves into plying, setting twist, using a niddy
noddy, and woolen and worsted spinning. Maggie concludes with a chapter
on uses for spun yarn, which covers wraps per inch, measuring yards for
projects, and size of yarn.
This little
spinning book will
teach you all you want to know about drop spindles and how to use them to
make your very own yarn. Designed to appeal to the beginner spinner, tips
and hints are provided that illustrate how easy, enjoyable, and relaxing
spinning can be. Drop spindles are the simple tools that help you to turn
wool into yarn: from a potato on a stick, to beautiful handcrafted wood
spindles and new-age titanium spindles with CD whorls. Included are
complete instructions for five simple, appealing projects: a woven scarf,
a knitted bunny bag, a spiral-knit baby hat, knitted fingerless mittens,
and a crocheted felted brimmed hat. Once you begin spinning on a drop
spindle, you won’t want to stop—it’s soothing, portable, and
mesmerizing.
Easy to follow drop spindle spinning instructions even for a beginning
spinner. One of the best drop spindle books.
A
paperbound edition of Deb Menz's classic guide to color for handspinners
is finally here! Menz draws on 20 years of experience teaching and
experimenting with color techniques to offer a technically savvy yet
accessible tutorial on working with color and fiber. Written expressly for
the handspinner seeking new adventures in color, this comprehensive manual
presents in-depth discussions and step-by-step photographed demonstrations
of immersion dyeing, painting rovings, blending colors and fibers, and
spinning and plying multicolored preparations. And for those spinners who
are color challenged, a useful chapter on understanding color principles
will give you the skills needed to easily work with color. Whether you're
a novice or an expert, no spinner's library is complete without this book.
Many
spinning books come and go. This one is a keeper! Subtitled " From Novice to Expert", this
spinning book will guide you
thru all stages of spinning and more. Let master spinner Connie Delaney
introduce you to spinning with a drop spindle. Find out how to select
spinning fiber, how to prepare it, spin and ply it. Learn about the
different spindle types and how to make your own drop spindle and wrist
distaff. A must have for spindle spinners, this book will answer any
"drop spindle" questions. Contains extensive drop spindle
spinning
instructions for a wide variety of spindles.
20 Years of Spinning
Wisdom from Spin Off Magazine.
From
all the spinning books on the market today this is the only one with
all the information that you need to learn to spin silk! Ruth Mac Gregor's brand new 38 page book will teach you about the
different types of silk, how to spin them, ply and make a skein.
Drop spindle instructions includes trouble shooting tips and instructions on how to spin
alpaca and Tencel as well.
Subtitled
This
book is destined to be a classic! Great reference book for every
spinner will leave no questions unanswered. Wheel designer and
maintainer of textile traditions, Alden Amos – the recipient and
evaluator of traditional wisdom – will guide you thru the many aspects
of spinning, spinning wheels, fibers This is truly a BIG book offering
decades of experience in making and handling yarn. He’ll change your
spinning for the better. Spinning books come and go, this one is a
keeper with it's in depth spinning instructions. 
The
book you have been waiting for! Bring your spinning to the next level!
Few things are as satisfying as creating the perfect yarn for a
special project. This book, first printed by Interweave Press in 1987,
leads the new or intermediate spinner gently into the world of
super-soft luxury fibers, textured effects, and the dyepot’s miracles.
Learn to apply dye to fibers in new and exciting ways, predict how
novelty yarns will look in finished fabrics, blend fibers for color
and texture effects, and spin singles and plied yarns in ways that
will put more zip in your spinning—and your weaving, knitting, and
crocheting. Corespun, bouclé, snarl, knotted, and tufted yarns will
become part of your spinning repertoire, and you’ll rediscover the
excitement of spinning all over again. You won't want to miss these
spinning instructions. Diane Varney is an author
and artist of many talents including spinning, painting, and jewelry-
and pottery-making. Her current artistic focus is on making colorful
dinnerware. She divides her time between homes in Baja California,
Mexico, and the San Francisco area. 
The
newest book from this popular author. Projects include crocheted,
felted, knitted and woven items such as vests, hats, mittens, scarves,
baby booties and socks. 
Subtitles:
How, and why to make your own yarn with a high whorl drop spindle, let
drop spindle master Prescilla Gibson-Roberts teach you the in and outs
of spindle spinning. Loose fibers become yarn because of a twist,
which holds them together. Just by adding twist you can create yarn
that is sturdy enough to be knitted or woven into fabric. All you need
is a high-whorl spindle, unspun fiber, a few yards of leftover
knitting yarn, and the guidance of a master spinner and knitter. 178
pages, softcover
This
comprehensive guide to raising and maintaining sheep has been in print
since 1983, and reprinted with revisions and additions in 2001.
Whether you have one new lamb or a huge flock, this is the book for
shepherds of any age. It is a great, thorough yet undaunting
reference. This is that book. Other books may be prettier to look at,
but this is technical, practical, friendly and sometimes even
humorous. An indispensable guide. 
If
you want to learn to spin or are a novice spinner and want to brush up
on your technique, you will want this video. It is comprehensive and
offers clear and precise instructions on how a spinning wheel works,
the various types of wheels, wheel set-up, fiber preparation,
pre-drafting, and how to spin various wool fibers. A written insert is
included with the video that outlines all the materials you will need
to get started. One thing that struck me is how much encouragement Ms.
Zawistoski provides; you feel like she's actually in the room with you
urging you on. 112 minutes. 
Mabel
says that when we first learn to spin, we take what we get, and try to
do something with it. In this video or DVD, Mabel will change all that
for you as she teaches you how to spin yarn to a predetermined size
that will fit the needs of your current project. You will learn how to
prepare and spin different lengths of fibers to make worsted and
woolen yarns for weaving or knitting, using shortdraw and traditional
longdraw techniques. You will learn how to make a plied yarn of any
exact thickness with just the right amount of twist, for various
purposes, & how to repeat it exactly, at any time. You will learn to
spin yarns of average thickness, very thick yarn, soft knitting yarn,
and extremely fine gossamer yarn for knitting lace. If you're just
beginning to learn to spin, we recommend you start with "Spinning
Wool-Basics & Beyond" 112 minutes
Finalist-Award
for Excellence in Video Production Worldfest Houston - 1993. Each of
these fibers has its own unique history, and each is available in its
own unique form and each requires various modifications of spinning
technique. You will learn all about this in this video. Plus you will
learn about the various fiber preparations that can be purchased, plus
appropriate drafting, plying and finishing techniques for each fiber.
You will learn how the choice of original preparation affects the
finished yarn. Each fiber will be addressed separately, allowing you
to study one fiber at a time. It will be helpful if you are familiar
with wool spinning, and comfortable with your spinning wheel. 111
minutes 
In
this course you will learn how to spin many exotic fibers including
Camel, Llama, Alpaca, Cashmere, Angora, dog rabbit and of course
Quiviuet from our friend the Musk Ox. The video also includes live
footage of many of these animals so that you can become better
acquainted. You will also learn how to spin many types of novelty yarn
using a combination of fibers and spinning techniques. Tips on buying
these fibers and the best end use of the yarn is also included. 96
minutes
The
video and DVD spinners have been waiting for! Using seven spinning
recipes, you will make cabled, knotted, soft twist singles, spirals
from different singles, 3-pass boucles, core-spun boucles, and mixed
twist "illegal" spirals. With theses recipes, you will then make many
varieties by using nine design factors to change the resulting yarn.
You will learn the importance of having a control yarn so you can
continue creating the same yarn and how to make quick skeins and set
the twist. The section on twist analysis will help you determine how
much plying each type of yarn. 117 minutes 
Fiber
Preperation and Multicolor Blending Techniques, Deb Menz