Category: spinning
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The landward side of the A859
Borvemor is situated on the beautiful West Coast of Harris, and overlooks the Island of Taransay. If you see the house in the photo above on the landward side of the A859 when travelling from Tarbert, 14 miles, you will have gone 100m too far for Borvemor cottages and if you see it when travelling…
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weavers loom sheds
In weaving, the shed is the temporary separation between upper and lower warp yarns through which the weft is woven. The shed is created to make it easy to interlace the weft into the warp and thus create woven fabric. Most types of looms have some sort of device which separates some of the warp threads from the others. This separation is…
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budding weavers and welcome to the very first Stashing Yarn Post … – Fabric Crafts
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Spin Yarn on a Spinning Wheel
A “spinning wheel” is a device for spinning thread or yarn from fibres. It was fundamental to the cotton textile industry prior to the Industrial Revolution. It laid the foundations for later machinery such as the spinning jenny and spinning frame, which displaced the spinning wheel during the Industrial Revolution A “spinning wheel” is…