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Eco-friendly fibre craft
In my effort to live more lightly on the Earth, I am beginning to review what kinds of fibre I use for knitting, spinning and weaving. Just as the organic certification of food has become increasingly...
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Fall fungus gallery
A walk in the woods this time of year will turn up a vast array of mushrooms and other fungi. Here are just a few of the more photogenic specimens we spotted on a walk near the family cottage on...
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Combining fibre with a hackle
Kit Fisher recently gave a workshop, at Guelph Handweavers and Spinners Guild, on combining fibre with a hackle. Creating yarn this way has always appealed to me. In fact, thinking back, it was one of...
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OHS: Spinning stories from fibre, part 2
Last weekend I attended the Ontario Handspinning Seminar 2013. Yesterday I introduced the theme, which was storytelling, discussed the workshops and described a fleece I purchased. Here is part 2 of...
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Natural dye from mountain-ash leaves
American mountain-ash (Sorbus americana) leaves provide an excellent natural dye in coppery-gold colours. This plant does not often arise in discussions of natural dyes, perhaps because it lacks wide...
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