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Self-Sufficiency: Spinning, Dyeing & Weaving: Essential Guide for Beginners - Softcover

Buch 3 von 14: Self-Sufficiency

Walsh, Penny

 
9781504800389: Self-Sufficiency: Spinning, Dyeing & Weaving: Essential Guide for Beginners
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1504800389 ISBN 13: 9781504800389
Verlag: IMM Lifestyle Books, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

In this comprehensive book, an expert textile arts instructor reveals everything readers need to know to make their own fabrics. This book explains where different fibers come from, how to grow and harvest your own vegetable fibers, and how to prepare them for spinning. The principles of spindle and spinning wheel spinning are covered, along with home dyeing using natural dyestuffs, and hand weaving with or without a loom. Finally, there are a number of simple projects, such as a rug, shoulder bag, bed cover, and jumper and mitts to put your newly learned skills to the test.

 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Penny Walsh is the author of Yarn: How to Understand, Design and Use Yarn. A visiting lecturer in textile arts at several colleges in the U.K., Penny teaches and researches traditional techniques of dyeing and spinning, using ecologically sound ingredients and renewable sources. Part of the design group AO Textiles, she has worked on fabrics and yarns for Jean Muir, Pecler's of Paris, Laura Biagiotti, The Royal Opera House, and Aveda Eco Fashion.

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Discover age-old techniques and enjoy making beautiful, all-natural fabrics with this comprehensive guide. Expert textile arts instructor Penny Walsh reveals everything you need to know to start producing your own high-quality custom fabrics.

Self-Sufficiency: Spinning, Dyeing & Weaving explains where different fibers come from, how to grow and harvest your own vegetable fibers, and how to prepare them for spinning. The principles of spindle and spinning wheel spinning are covered, along with home dyeing using natural dyestuffs, and hand weaving with or without a loom.

Four simple projectsa rug, shoulder bag, bed cover, and jumper and mittsround off the book to put your newly learnt skills to the test.

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Verlag
IMM Lifestyle Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1504800389
ISBN 13 
9781504800389
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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