We might be familiar with shearing the sheep, spinning the wool into yarn, or knitting and weaving, but between shearing and spinning there’s another unfamiliar process you’ll have to go through.
This might sound like we're spinning you a yarn but this week's Everyday Artist of the Week was so committed to her craft that she took a spindle to a football match. Not just any football game ...
The spinning jenny allowed one person to produce many threads much more quickly than by hand. One of the earlies examples of machinery that was used to boost the production of the yarns and ...
After the spinning, there is plying, if you want stronger yarn. Then you're washing again, before winding the yard into skeins. As you see, there were numerous upstream and downstream processes.