Surf these sites: Build your own Spinning Wheel -- Reference lists of plans/instruction and a booklist. Last updated in March 1997 but still valuable. Cyber Fyber: A Resource for Fiberartists -- Teacher registry, events calendar, guild registry, handspinners gallery, and classified ads. Vendor of spinning wheels and fiber. Fiber News -- International monthly magazine for fiber and textile artists. Includes sample issue. Guild: Maryland -- Calvert Spinners and Weavers Guild, a group of fiber enthusiasts in Southern Maryland: meeting information, links, events. Guilds - Spinning and Weaving -- about.com compilation. Organized by State with links to guild web pages. Also includes listings for Australia, Canada, Denmark, UK. Insects that Damage Wool -- Description, habits, and treatment of clothes moths and carpet beetles. Selecting a Spinning Wheel -- Includes illustration of parts of a wheel, comparison of single vs. double drive wheels, speed and ratios. From The Woolery. Spin Off -- A magazine devoted to all aspects of spinning. The site includes indexes of back issues and subscription information. Spinners'' and Weavers'' Housecleaning Pages -- For the exchange of things related to spinning and weaving -- tools, equipment and raw fiber from home-raised animals. Spinning Wheel FAQs -- Naming of parts, styles of wheels, new vs. old, wheels reviewed. Spinning Wheels Must Go Round -- Personal home page with information and links for the beginning handspinner. The Joy of Handspinning -- Offering information, spinning wheels, spinning supplies, carding equipment, fleece & fiber, natural dyes, and books for handspinning natural fibers into luxury and novelty yarn. The Spin List -- Email discussion list with topics from the care and feeding of our fibers and equipment to the projects that use our yarn. Victorian Video Productions. -- Instructional videos on spinning, dyeing, felting. Wern Mill Textile Craft Workshops (Wales U.K.) -- Instruction in handspinning of silk, merino and cotton, natural and synthetic dyeing, felting; beginners and advanced. Residential courses in a 16th century watermill. Near to Chester, Snowdonia and North Wales Coast. Ideal "hobby vacation" location. Wrist Distaff for handspinning -- A wrist distaff helps a handspinner hold prepared fiber when using a handspindle. Here are instructions to make and use one. Yarn Properties -- Three yarn characteristics (filament and staple fibers, plys, and twist) and how they affect yarn.
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