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Please submit sites pertaining to the art and craft of handspinning, including artists' personal pages, informational and educational sites.
Please do not submit sites which primarily offer goods, fiber, equipment or yarn for sale. Submit them instead to Shopping/Crafts/Supplies/Fiber_Arts/Yarn_Arts/Spinning or the appropriate subcategory. |
Handspinning is the craft of creating yarn from fiber, by drawing the fibers out while twisting them. It can by accomplished using a spinning wheel treadled by foot or by hand, or using a drop or support spindle or even more primitive means.This category and its subcategories cover sites about handspinners, equipment, techniques, festivals and events, and types of fiber.
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Please submit informational and instructional sites about spinning fibers, types of fibers and their qualities and uses.
Please do not submit sites that primarily offer spinning fiber for sale. If the site sells fiber for spinning, please submit it to Shopping/Crafts/Supplies/Fiber_Arts/Yarn_Arts/Spinning |
Handspun yarn can be made from many different types of raw fiber. Animal (protein) fibers are those such as wool shorn from sheep, goats or camelids (such as alpaca and llama). Plant fiber (cellulose) examples are cotton, or bast fibers (from the stem of a plant) such as flax (linen) or ramie. Man-made fibers that handspinners use include rayon and lyocell (Tencel).
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