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FEATURED SALE ITEM:
I have a limited amount of superwash wool top available on the SALE! page. It takes dye beautifully, and can be mixed in a fabric with cotton and treated in the wash like cotton. Weave it up with Dye-Lishus® cotton yarn or make your own fabric, then dye it with or without heat. Both accept acid dyes; shown are Saxon blue, acid yellow,and acid red. Superwash wool at top and middle, Dye-Lishus® cotton sliver below. Wool at the top dyed with heat and vinegar, wool in the middle dyed in lukewarm water without  vinegar in the same bath as the Dye-Lishus® cotton.
Other new sale items include
  • Fine hemp and hemp/cotton singles yarns that you can use for plying, for weft, and maybe even warp.
  • Grab bags of leftover sliver from years past. Each bag contains at least 5 colors in different quantities. Colors are either stock dyed or natural. Only 2 bags have any white in them.
NEW TECHNIQUES:
I am often asked if you can spin wool on a charkha. There are several answers, all with qualifications:
  1. Yes, if the fiber is short
  2. Yes, if the charkha ratio is under 40:1
  3. No if you want to spin worsted on an accelerated wheel
The accelerated charkha was designed for short, as in cotton, fibers. There are two ways to shorten a fiber--cut it, or fold it in half. Industry cuts fiber without qualms, but the thought horrifies most spinners. A much more palatable technique is folding it in half, also known as "spinning on the fold". This is a common handspinning technique, and can be used to spin long wool and silk fibers on the charkha. Consider a bobby pin, and the loop where the pin is folded. This loop occurs naturally when folding anything. The loop gives you airspace, and airspace is your best friend when you are trying to draft.
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