Cheryl Cegla had set aside her spinning during the holidays. "Now it's time to get something done," she said, pedaling her spinning wheel while feeding bright-orange wool onto the bobbin. It's a ...

From marmalade making to crochet, many traditional forms of craft and cooking are having a resurgence, not least the art of spinning wool. After nearly 50 years of spinning and chatting, the Hamilton ...

Yarn spinning dynamics and fibre arrangement form the cornerstone of modern textile engineering, underpinning both the quality of yarn and its performance in downstream manufacturing. An understanding ...

Learn how to spin yarn by hand and get quality drop spindle instructions. Start using this tool that’s hardly changed since the Stone Age. I taught myself to spin when I was about 13 years old, using ...

The Ashford spinning wheel is a relatively recent addition at Eileen Douglas's Benambra house and its whisper is only occasionally interrupted by the pop of the 100-year-old slow combustion stove in ...

While knitting and crocheting remain popular past-times on the Island there aren’t too many people who hand spin their own wool into yarn to do it. Philanthropist lawyer Michelle St. Jane is the ...

As you reach retirement age, you may be thinking about taking up fishing, golf, or even knitting. But if Richard Hagger even considered the latter, it was only as an aside to his main interest.