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The Fleece & Fiber Sourcebook

More Than 200 Fibers, from Animal to Spun Yarn

by Carol Ekarius, Deborah Robson ...

This one-of-a-kind encyclopedia shines a spotlight on more than 200 animals and their wondrous fleece.Profiling a worldwide array of fiber-producers that includes northern Africa’s dromedary camel, the Navajo churro, and the Tasmanian merino, Carol Ekarius and Deborah Robson include photographs of each animal’s fleece at every stage of the handcrafting process, from raw to cleaned, spun, and woven ... Read more

£9.99

This one-of-a-kind encyclopedia shines a spotlight on more than 200 animals and their wondrous fleece.Profiling a worldwide array of fiber-producers that includes northern Africa’s dromedary camel, the Navajo churro, and the Tasmanian merino, Carol Ekarius and Deborah Robson include photographs of each animal’s fleece at every stage of the handcrafting process, from raw to cleaned, spun, and woven
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The Weaver's Idea Book

Creative Cloth on a Rigid Heddle Loom

by Jane Patrick ...

New and experienced weavers alike are always on the lookout for new weave-structure patterns. The Weaver's Idea Book presents a wide variety of patterns for the simple rigid-heddle loom, accompanied by harness drafts for multishaft looms. The techniques include leno, Brooks bouquet, soumak, and embroidery on fabric. Each chapter contains weaving patterns along with swatches illustrating the ... Read more

£3.05

New and experienced weavers alike are always on the lookout for new weave-structure patterns. The Weaver's Idea Book presents a wide variety of patterns for the simple rigid-heddle loom, accompanied by harness drafts for multishaft looms. The techniques include leno, Brooks bouquet, soumak, and embroidery on fabric. Each chapter contains weaving patterns along with swatches illustrating the
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The Intentional Spinner

by Judith Mackenzie ...

Offering a blend of technical knowledge, history, and easy-to-use tips, this inspiring collection of spinning wisdom deftly explores the three fundamental areas of yarn production: understanding fibers, managing yarn structure, and making yarns that precisely meet the spinner's needs. The rich, historic traditions of plant and animal fibers are fascinatingly juxtaposed with recent advances in ... Read more

£7.19

Offering a blend of technical knowledge, history, and easy-to-use tips, this inspiring collection of spinning wisdom deftly explores the three fundamental areas of yarn production: understanding fibers, managing yarn structure, and making yarns that precisely meet the spinner's needs. The rich, historic traditions of plant and animal fibers are fascinatingly juxtaposed with recent advances in
... Read more
Doubleweave Revised & Expanded

by Jennifer Moore ...

Series series The Weaver's Studio
Conventional shaft loom weaving constricts the weaver into making only a single layer of fabric that is no wider than the loom. Increase your loom's capabilities with Doubleweave Revised & Expanded!In this comprehensive guide to doubleweave, master-weaver Jennifer Moore revisits the tips and techniques to weaving in multiple layers. Doubleweave Revised & Expanded is filled with new information ... Read more

£7.64

Conventional shaft loom weaving constricts the weaver into making only a single layer of fabric that is no wider than the loom. Increase your loom's capabilities with Doubleweave Revised & Expanded!In this comprehensive guide to doubleweave, master-weaver Jennifer Moore revisits the tips and techniques to weaving in multiple layers. Doubleweave Revised & Expanded is filled with new information
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The Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs

Techniques for Creating 80 Yarns

by Sarah Anderson ...

Discover the satisfying fun of spinning your own yarn!This step-by-step guide shows you how to create 80 distinctive yarn types, from classics like mohair bouclé to novelties like supercoils. Covering the entire spinning process, Sarah Anderson describes the unique architecture of each type of yarn and shares expert techniques for manipulating and combining fibers. Take your crafting to a new ... Read more

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Discover the satisfying fun of spinning your own yarn!This step-by-step guide shows you how to create 80 distinctive yarn types, from classics like mohair bouclé to novelties like supercoils. Covering the entire spinning process, Sarah Anderson describes the unique architecture of each type of yarn and shares expert techniques for manipulating and combining fibers. Take your crafting to a new
... Read more
How to Macramé

The Essential Guide to Macramé Knots and Techniques

by Dorothy Wood ...

Learn how to create elegant macramé pieces with this comprehensive, fully-illustrated guide by the renowned author of The Knotting and Braiding Bible.In How to Macramé, jewelry crafter and macramé expert Dorothy Wood covers all the essential techniques for creating your own elegant and intricately knotted jewelry. With detailed photographs and clear, step-by-step instructions, you'll go from ... Read more

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Learn how to create elegant macramé pieces with this comprehensive, fully-illustrated guide by the renowned author of The Knotting and Braiding Bible.In How to Macramé, jewelry crafter and macramé expert Dorothy Wood covers all the essential techniques for creating your own elegant and intricately knotted jewelry. With detailed photographs and clear, step-by-step instructions, you'll go from
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Spin Art

Mastering the Craft of Spinning Textured Yarn

by Jacey Boggs ...

Jacey Boggs helps you bring textured and novelty yarns to the next level in Spin Art. Inside you'll learn all the secrets behind her exciting new fusion of traditional spinning and envelope-pushing creativity.The yarn styles explored in this comprehensive spinning guide are as well made as they are inventive. Jacey walks you through each of her techniques, with a refreshing mixture of quirky, ... Read more

£4.58

Jacey Boggs helps you bring textured and novelty yarns to the next level in Spin Art. Inside you'll learn all the secrets behind her exciting new fusion of traditional spinning and envelope-pushing creativity.The yarn styles explored in this comprehensive spinning guide are as well made as they are inventive. Jacey walks you through each of her techniques, with a refreshing mixture of quirky,
... Read more
The Bandweaver's Project Book

34 Stylish, Practical Designs + Clever Finishing Techniques

by Heather Torgenrud ...

Wondering what to do with all your handwoven bands? This book has the answer. These 34 Nordic-style projects use the simplest bandweaving technique—warp-faced tabby—but could easily be adapted for other techniques like pick-up or tablet weaving. It's a resource for all bandweavers, whether they work on an inkle loom, band heddle, tape loom, backstrap loom, or tablets, and whether they weave simple ... Read more

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Wondering what to do with all your handwoven bands? This book has the answer. These 34 Nordic-style projects use the simplest bandweaving technique—warp-faced tabby—but could easily be adapted for other techniques like pick-up or tablet weaving. It's a resource for all bandweavers, whether they work on an inkle loom, band heddle, tape loom, backstrap loom, or tablets, and whether they weave simple
... Read more
Next Steps In Weaving

What You Never Knew You Needed to Know

by Pattie Graver ...

Expand your weaving skills with this guide's simple instructions, clear diagrams and beautiful photosIn Next Steps In Weaving, you'll explore a variety of weave structures and concepts in depth and detail including twill, color-and-weave, overshot, summer and winter, and lace.This is not just a book of weaving patterns. Each topic is explained and supplemented with instructions for weaving a ... Read more

£10.70

Expand your weaving skills with this guide's simple instructions, clear diagrams and beautiful photosIn Next Steps In Weaving, you'll explore a variety of weave structures and concepts in depth and detail including twill, color-and-weave, overshot, summer and winter, and lace.This is not just a book of weaving patterns. Each topic is explained and supplemented with instructions for weaving a
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Weaving Within Reach

Beautiful Woven Projects by Hand or by Loom

by Anne Weil ...

Modern weaving projects like you've never seen—within easy reach of anyone.Weaving is a satisfying hobby for making home or clothing accessories that look plucked from your favorite stores. Here are Pinterest-worthy projects for creating earrings, clutches, pillows, wall hangings, and more, all organized by skill level. From complete beginner to intermediate, Weaving Within Reach allows you to ... Read more

£3.05

Modern weaving projects like you've never seen—within easy reach of anyone.Weaving is a satisfying hobby for making home or clothing accessories that look plucked from your favorite stores. Here are Pinterest-worthy projects for creating earrings, clutches, pillows, wall hangings, and more, all organized by skill level. From complete beginner to intermediate, Weaving Within Reach allows you to
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The Beginner's Guide to Kumihimo

Techniques, Patterns and Projects to Learn How to Braid

by Dorothy Wood ...

The renowned jewelry crafter teaches readers how to make beautiful creations using the traditional Japanese braiding technique of Kumihimo.Kumihimo is the centuries-old Japanese artform of creating elegant braids using intricate and beautiful patterns and designs. These braids are then fashioned into all kinds of objects, such as bracelets, necklaces and more. This illustrated guide features step ... Read more

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The renowned jewelry crafter teaches readers how to make beautiful creations using the traditional Japanese braiding technique of Kumihimo.Kumihimo is the centuries-old Japanese artform of creating elegant braids using intricate and beautiful patterns and designs. These braids are then fashioned into all kinds of objects, such as bracelets, necklaces and more. This illustrated guide features step
... Read more
Quilting for Beginners: The New Step-By-Step Guide To Learn Modern Quilting With rapid and Easy To Make Patterns

by Antony Wood ...

Would you like to master Quilting? Good! This book is exactly what you need!Welcome to the amazing world of Quilting! When you begin to quilt, you'll be joining a longstanding folk art tradition that has an important place in American handicrafts. The satisfaction of seeing your finished quilt spread out on your bead or draped over the back of your couch will make every hour of stitching worth it ... Read more

£6.74

Would you like to master Quilting? Good! This book is exactly what you need!Welcome to the amazing world of Quilting! When you begin to quilt, you'll be joining a longstanding folk art tradition that has an important place in American handicrafts. The satisfaction of seeing your finished quilt spread out on your bead or draped over the back of your couch will make every hour of stitching worth it
... Read more
Bead Weaving On a Loom

The complete step by step guide with pictures to learn the techniques and patterns to bead weave on a loom with several

by Katty Gabriel ...

Bead looming is a fun and easy technique that began long ago as a Native American decorative art form. Looming has evolved over the years and is often used by modern beaders to make stylish bracelets and accessories. As the style and forms of using a bead loom evolved, so did the tools, materials, and equipment. You can easily spice up loomed designs by using two-hole beads, leather cording, ... Read more

£2.99

Bead looming is a fun and easy technique that began long ago as a Native American decorative art form. Looming has evolved over the years and is often used by modern beaders to make stylish bracelets and accessories. As the style and forms of using a bead loom evolved, so did the tools, materials, and equipment. You can easily spice up loomed designs by using two-hole beads, leather cording,
... Read more
North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X

Edited by Eva B. Andersson Strand, Margarita Gleba, Ulla Mannering, Cherine Munkholt, Maj Ringgard ...

Series Book 5 - Ancient Textiles
The NESAT symposium has grown from the first meeting in 1981 which was attended by 23 scholars, to over 100 at the tenth meeting that took place in Copenhagen in 2008, with virtually all areas of Europe represented. The 50 papers from the conference presented here show the vibrance of the study of archaeological textiles today. Examples studied come from the Bronze Age, Neolithic, the Iron Age, ... Read more

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The NESAT symposium has grown from the first meeting in 1981 which was attended by 23 scholars, to over 100 at the tenth meeting that took place in Copenhagen in 2008, with virtually all areas of Europe represented. The 50 papers from the conference presented here show the vibrance of the study of archaeological textiles today. Examples studied come from the Bronze Age, Neolithic, the Iron Age,
... Read more
Handspinner's Companion

From Fibre to Yarn

by Amanda Hannaford ...

This practical book explains the full process of handspinning, from choosing a fleece through to plying your own handspun yarn. Packed with advice and with over 400 photographs, it includes multiple step-by-step sequences to help the complete beginner become an accomplished spinner. ... Read more

£12.32

This practical book explains the full process of handspinning, from choosing a fleece through to plying your own handspun yarn. Packed with advice and with over 400 photographs, it includes multiple step-by-step sequences to help the complete beginner become an accomplished spinner.
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Weaving for the Soul

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by Viviana Valiente ...

Weaving for the Soul is a book designed for weavers all levels and an ideal choice for teachers of weaving. It will open the door to a whole new world full of ideas and creativity. The simplicity with which Viviana Valiente has written and illustrated this book makes it the perfect choice for anyone. It is an essential tool for those who want to begin a self-taught journey into the ancient art ... Read more

£8.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

Weaving for the Soul is a book designed for weavers all levels and an ideal choice for teachers of weaving. It will open the door to a whole new world full of ideas and creativity. The simplicity with which Viviana Valiente has written and illustrated this book makes it the perfect choice for anyone. It is an essential tool for those who want to begin a self-taught journey into the ancient art
... Read more
Northern Archaeological Textiles

by Frances Pritchard, John Peter Wild ...

This volume presents the papers from the seventh North-European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT), held in Edinburgh in 1999. The themes covered demonstrate a variety of scholarship that will encourage anyone working in this important and stimulating area of archaeology. From the golden robes of a Roman burial, to the fashionable Viking in Denmark, through to the early modern period ... Read more

£11.69 or Free with Kobo Plus

This volume presents the papers from the seventh North-European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles (NESAT), held in Edinburgh in 1999. The themes covered demonstrate a variety of scholarship that will encourage anyone working in this important and stimulating area of archaeology. From the golden robes of a Roman burial, to the fashionable Viking in Denmark, through to the early modern period
... Read more
Tissage de perles avec un métier

by Caroline Soulères ...

60 bracelets et manchettes irrésistibles à réaliser avec un métier à perler et des perles Miyuki. Une technique simple et accessible avec, pour chaque modèle, un diagramme complet et les références des perles utilisées. ... Read more

£5.49

60 bracelets et manchettes irrésistibles à réaliser avec un métier à perler et des perles Miyuki. Une technique simple et accessible avec, pour chaque modèle, un diagramme complet et les références des perles utilisées.
... Read more
Weaving Chiapas

Maya Women’s Lives in a Changing World

Translated by Charlene Woodcock, Leíre Gutiérrez ...

by Barbara Schütz ...

In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large indigenous population lives in rural communities, many of which retain traditional forms of governance. In 1996, some 350 women of these communities formed a weavers’ cooperative, which they called Jolom Mayaetik. Their goal was to join together to market textiles of high quality in both new and ancient designs. Weaving Chiapas offers a rare view of the ... Read more

£14.12

In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large indigenous population lives in rural communities, many of which retain traditional forms of governance. In 1996, some 350 women of these communities formed a weavers’ cooperative, which they called Jolom Mayaetik. Their goal was to join together to market textiles of high quality in both new and ancient designs. Weaving Chiapas offers a rare view of the
... Read more
Kumihimo; The Japanese Art of Braiding, 3rd Edition

by Monique Littlejohn ...

The art of braiding has been practiced for thousands of years. Back in Egyptian times, the ancients discovered that by braiding papyrus and other reeds, the end product was much stronger and more stable than by using the reeds in their natural form. Ancient mariners would make their ropes out of local grasses and other materials, which resulted in sturdy ships that could cross vast distances. In ... Read more

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The art of braiding has been practiced for thousands of years. Back in Egyptian times, the ancients discovered that by braiding papyrus and other reeds, the end product was much stronger and more stable than by using the reeds in their natural form. Ancient mariners would make their ropes out of local grasses and other materials, which resulted in sturdy ships that could cross vast distances. In
... Read more
The Useful Goat: The Ultimate Guide for Milk, Meat, Fiber, Hides, and More

by Gianaclis Caldwell ...

From award winning goat expert Gianaclis Caldwell and written as a companion to her comprehensive 2017 volume, Holistic Goat Care**.**For farmers, backyard enthusiasts, and goat aficionados of all ages, The Useful Goat guides you through the myriad ways these wonderful animals help mankind. From beasts bearing burdens to providing nutritious milk and meat; from crafting hides into supple leather ... Read more

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From award winning goat expert Gianaclis Caldwell and written as a companion to her comprehensive 2017 volume, Holistic Goat Care**.**For farmers, backyard enthusiasts, and goat aficionados of all ages, The Useful Goat guides you through the myriad ways these wonderful animals help mankind. From beasts bearing burdens to providing nutritious milk and meat; from crafting hides into supple leather
... Read more
手缝时光：我的拼布日记

by 蔡燕燕 ...

本书详细介绍了拼布的基础知识以及多种风格和用途的拼布作品的缝制过程，包括拼布和缝纫的基础针法图示和讲解，图文并茂地展示了手作拼布作品的每一个步骤，并随书附赠与实物等比例的大纸型以及相应案例的视频教程链接，让缝纫零基础的人也能轻松入门，掌握拼布技巧并制作出自己的作品。 ... Read more

£1.85 or Free with Kobo Plus

本书详细介绍了拼布的基础知识以及多种风格和用途的拼布作品的缝制过程，包括拼布和缝纫的基础针法图示和讲解，图文并茂地展示了手作拼布作品的每一个步骤，并随书附赠与实物等比例的大纸型以及相应案例的视频教程链接，让缝纫零基础的人也能轻松入门，掌握拼布技巧并制作出自己的作品。
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Basket-Weaving Crafts

22 Step-by-Step Basket Making Projects

by Virve Boesch ...

If you've ever wanted to create full baskets but felt it was too intimidating, Basket-Weaving Crafts is the must-have beginner's guide to basketry! Featuring 22 contemporary projects, step-by-step instructions and illustrations, and high-quality photography, this book is the gateway to creating modern masterpieces. An introduction explains all the materials and basic techniques in easy-to ... Read more

£7.46 or Free with Kobo Plus

If you've ever wanted to create full baskets but felt it was too intimidating, Basket-Weaving Crafts is the must-have beginner's guide to basketry! Featuring 22 contemporary projects, step-by-step instructions and illustrations, and high-quality photography, this book is the gateway to creating modern masterpieces. An introduction explains all the materials and basic techniques in easy-to
... Read more
Basket Essentials: Rib Basket Weaving

Techniques and Projects for DIY Woven Reed Baskets

by Lora S. Irish ...

Go beyond just following the steps and learn the methods to traditional basket weaving, from measuring and adding spokes and forming God's Eye knots to weaving twill and twining patterns. With step-by-step instructions and photography for 3 rib basket projects, followed by 12 additional designs to accomplish independently, you'll acquire all the proper techniques you need to become a successful ... Read more

£7.39 or Free with Kobo Plus

Go beyond just following the steps and learn the methods to traditional basket weaving, from measuring and adding spokes and forming God's Eye knots to weaving twill and twining patterns. With step-by-step instructions and photography for 3 rib basket projects, followed by 12 additional designs to accomplish independently, you'll acquire all the proper techniques you need to become a successful
... Read more

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