Learn how to spin yarn by hand and get quality drop spindle instructions. Start using this tool that’s hardly changed since the Stone Age. I taught myself to spin when I was about 13 years old, using ...

The Santa Monica Public Library will host a free yarn-spinning workshop on Saturday, July 19, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Montana Avenue Branch. Volunteers from the Greater Los Angeles Spinning Guild will ...

Since the Industrial Revolution, spinning yarn and thread by hand has slipped from being an everyday household practice to a rare skill, but it's not a lost art. Dawn Barker, who uses a spinning wheel ...

Yarn spinning dynamics and fibre arrangement form the cornerstone of modern textile engineering, underpinning both the quality of yarn and its performance in downstream manufacturing. An understanding ...

Rue Toland has been spinning yarn for over 20 years. It wasn’t until she moved to New Hampshire that she had a flock of her own sheep to shear and make homemade yarn. Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s ...

Researchers in US are the first to produce electrically conducting yarns from webs of carbon nanotubes and various powders and nanofibres. The yarns, made by a technique called biscrolling, are very ...

Pride in yarn: Cindy Walker’s Stony Hill Fiber Arts business relies on organic cotton grown, picked, ginned and bailed in Texas by the Bingham family; combed and spun in Thomasville, N.C., by Hill ...

There is a crafty vibe in the air of materials science. Earlier this week we brought news that researchers investigating how graphene forms discovered a patchwork-like structure in the carbon ...

Bucking an economic trend, Patrick Yarns remains profitable by spinning a wide range of products for a diverse group of customersPhotographs for TIME by Vincent J. Musi / Aurora Based in Kings ...