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Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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Indigo blue - growing, harvesting, processing and marketing indigo dye plants

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old spinning wheel photos and questions

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Raising sheep only for wool

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Nettle-A-Long, harvesting stinging nettle yarn

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growing, harvesting and using natural dye plants and other natural dye materials

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Acorn top hand spinning drop spindle

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Homespun Challenge

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Plant fibers for clothing

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Make your own loom

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Hand spinning on a production scale - tools of the trade

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Vegan friendly warm and natural textiles - a big oldfashioned brainstorming thread

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Kakishibu (persimmon tannin liquid)

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natural fibers and materials

in search of natural clothing - especially winter gear

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dyeing with onion skins

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Home processing Cotton and Linen on a small scale

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How to Make a Straw Mattress

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Harakeke - New Zealand flax

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evaluating wool - what a sheep fleece can tell you

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What works for making yarn with plants?

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Raising sheep only for wool

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evaluating wool - what a sheep fleece can tell you

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retting plants for fibre

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growing clothing to sequester carbon

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What spinning wheel do I have here?

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cloth from kudzu

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Natural Dyeing with Queen Anne's Lace

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how to extract lanolin from wool

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dyeing with invasive species?

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building a spinning wheel

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Making simple, saleable items from low-grade wool.

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spinning question...advice for better long draw?

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making and using your own iron mordant/modifier for natural dyeing

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how to weave a rug with raw wool

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Natural Dyeing with Sheeps Sorrel

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Felting a traditional yurt wall

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How to recycle a woolen mattress pad

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“Rocking Knit”! Let you chair knit your hat for you.

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Mushrooms as a dying agent?

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growing clothing to sequester carbon

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Spinning wheel type?

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Nettle-A-Long, harvesting stinging nettle yarn

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textile tools

What spinning wheel do I have here?

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dyeing

Indigo blue - growing, harvesting, processing and marketing indigo dye plants

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Harakeke - New Zealand flax

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retting plants for fibre

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Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

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growing, harvesting and using natural dye plants and other natural dye materials

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natural fibers and materials

Mesmerizing video of handcrafted shoes from leather.

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Sea Silk

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natural fibers and materials

old silent film about 30min long about spinning and weaving! video!

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textile tools

Hand spinning on a production scale - tools of the trade

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“Rocking Knit”! Let you chair knit your hat for you.

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making and using your own iron mordant/modifier for natural dyeing

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Energy generating spinning wheel

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natural fibers and materials

Homespun Challenge

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evaluating wool - what a sheep fleece can tell you

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natural fibers and materials

natural fiber as Shade cloth

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Make your own loom

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Giant ragweed fiber?

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Natural Dyeing with Queen Anne's Lace

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Kakishibu (persimmon tannin liquid)

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Historical spinning resources

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Great American farm tour visits a Wyoming "spinner".

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building a spinning wheel

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organic tank top - making my own?

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dyeing with invasive species?

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Increasing the number of harnesses on a floor loom

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spinning question...advice for better long draw?

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urine in natural dyeing

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Natural Dyeing with Sheeps Sorrel

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Mordant safety

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natural fibers and materials

I would love to see the woolen industry rise from the ashes

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using goat hair

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Making simple, saleable items from low-grade wool.

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Raising sheep only for wool

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natural fibers and materials

FIBERSHED...based on ecological balance, local economies, and regional organic agriculture

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Tanning coyote hides - special considerations?

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cloth from kudzu

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Plant fibers for clothing

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natural fibers and materials

fiber arts and fibershed - what do they mean to you?

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how to extract lanolin from wool

4 months ago 8 replies 1 1

leathercraft

Buckskin and Bark Tan Leather for sale

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how to weave a rug with raw wool

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