Yikes! I keep forgetting some people didn't grow up with a spinner for a mother. For newbies, an excellent book is "Hands On Spinning" by Lee Raven.
Wool can be spun "in the grease" which means...
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Yikes! I keep forgetting some people didn't grow up with a spinner for a mother. For newbies, an excellent book is "Hands On Spinning" by Lee Raven.
Wool can be spun "in the grease" which means...
Lehman's, down in Amish country, sells both a reproduction treadle machine, and a modern machine converted to treadle. They are quite upfront about their machines... production sewers, serious users,...
Interesting thread. I think what comes out of this thread is that a whole lot of people (and not just on CountryByNet.com!) dream of doing a little farming. Not so much farming they're dying...