Dot's fibre to fabric

I get more spinning time than weaving time nowadays, but I often have weaving ideas for my yarns. In the past couple of weeks I have been ...

I have just enjoyed a blog post by knit designer Kate Davies about visiting the Scottish wool spinners J C Rennie and would encourage you to...

I could ask you to guess what is pictured below: For most people this is an unsual sight and unexpected, probably not a fair question. This ...

The message has been passed around weavers in the UK that a company called GTM Sales Ltd. in Stalybridge had bought up the end of stock fro...

A couple of weeks ago I wearily escaped from the work on Friday afternoon just before the shops were closing, and there across the street wa...

In writing my bibliography I was startled to discover I had not written about a very, very good book that I discovered last year on silk. I...

We have a large garden where there's spaces for interesting weeds to lurk. This means I can always find useful dye plants, such as nett...

Yesterday I wanted to plan a yarn order. There are two particular projects I have in mind. The first is to weave a twill sample blanket, f...

I've been lent a most readable history book, East Cheshire Textile Mills, published in 1993 by the Royal Commission on The Historic Monu...

I have a new book, it is A Fine Fleece: knitting with handspun yarns, by Lisa Lloyd,just published by Potter Craft in the U.S., ISBN 978-0-3...

I was going to write about this very useful book a couple of months ago, I took the photo but didn't get much further than that. At the...

Last week I had spun and plied a fine grey Shetland yarn, when I had wound a skein and removed it from the small niddy-noddy, it twisted ove...

I recently ordered a book and a new weaving shuttle from Scottish Fibres , and, because I like to try out different wools to see what they ...

I've been working at my lace yarn spinning. As the Wensleydale yarn turned out looking a bit hairy, I picked up some white Shetland ...

Last year I attempted to spin very fine (lace weight) yarn. I had difficulty finding information about how to do this, and I wasn't...