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| Author | Article Title | Issue date | Issue number | Issue topic | Article topic list | Description |
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| Eileen Hallman | Charkha Tips and Tricks | Spring 2016 | 12 | Cotton | cotton, charkha, plying | This article describes the charkha and how to spin on one. It covers spinning in both S and Z directions as well as plying considerations. The article also includes tips for increasing spinning speed on the charkha. |
| Tip Jar: How to overcome fear and jump into cotton spinning | Spring 2016 | 12 | Cotton | cotton, expanding skills |
Do you want to learn to spin cotton but are nervous? PLY readers give you tips and tricks for getting started. |
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| Roy Clemes | Start Drumcarding: Build a batt | PSG Season 1 | 12 | PSG: Start Drumcarding | drum carding, batts |
Starting with clean fiber, Roy takes us through the whole process of making a batt starting with pre-processing, filtering, weighing, feeding, building, removing, and cleaning. Even seasoned carders will learn a new trick or two. |
| Roy Clemes | Start Drumcarding: Adjusting and maintaining | PSG Season 1 | 12 | PSG: Start Drumcarding | drum carder, wheel/tool care |
Drum carders are big and costly pieces of fiber equipment that deserve to be taken care of. Roy, Clemes & Clemes tool maker, walks us through how to adjust our drum carders to get the best results along with how to maintain them so they last a lifetime (and beyond). |
| Roy Clemes | Start Drumcarding: Woolen and wosted batts | PSG Season 1 | 12 | PSG: Start Drumcarding | batts, drum carder |
Drum carders are versatile tools that you can use to make both woolen batts and worsted-style batts! Roy Clemes, maker of Clemes & Clemes tools, talks about and walks you through both and how they compare. |
| Roy Clemes, Jacey Boggs Faulkner | Teacher Tea: with Roy Clemes | PSG Season 1 | 12 | PSG: Teacher Tea | community, personal reflection |
Roy Clemes, of Clemes & Clemes, joins Jacey for some tea and talk. They talk community, carders, family, and spinning. |
| Jacey Boggs Faulkner | Hello Texture: Intro | PSG Season 1 | 12 | PSG: Hello Texture | fiber prep, textured/art yarn, tweed |
Jacey, Zaphod, and Emily talk about texture via fiber prep with a focus on tweed! |
| Emily Wohlscheid | Hello Texture: Building tweed batts | PSG Season 1 | 12 | PSG: Hello Texture | silk, wool, drum carding, batts, locks, drum carder, textured/art yarn, tweed |
Want an easy way to introduce texture into your spinning? Emily introduces and walks you through building tweed batts on a drum carder using wool, locks, silk noil, and more. She talks about color, material, amounts, and carding techniques with lots of joy and personality. |
| Emily Wohlscheid | Hello Texture: Building tweed rolags | PSG Season 1 | 12 | PSG: Hello Texture | hand carding, rolags, hand cards, textured/art yarn, tweed |
Want an easy way to introduce texture into your spinning? Emily introduces and walks you through building tweed rolags on hand cards using wool, locks, silk noil, and more. She talks about color, material, amounts, and carding techniques with lots of joy and personality. |
| Emily Wohlscheid | Hello Texture: Spinning tweed yarns | PSG Season 1 | 12 | PSG: Hello Texture | batts, rolags, woolen, worsted, 2-ply, 3-ply, textured/art yarn, tweed |
Emily takes us through spinning tweed yarns from batts and rolags. She spins woolen, worsted, thick, thin, 2-ply, and 3-ply to show us the differences in how the tweed effects affect the yarn’s look. |
| Kay Toombs | Whot's That Spinner? Spinning with Tenacity | Spring 2016 | 12 | Cotton | community, personal reflection, cotton, charkha |
The author shares her journey in the fiber arts, which started with weaving and then led to spinning. She also talks about how she adapts her crafting to her physical disability. |
| Carson Demers | Ergo Neo: New ways to work | Spring 2016 | 12 | Cotton | ergonomics, charkhas | |
| Kristin Merritt | Cotton Spindles from Around the World | Spring 2016 | 12 | Cotton | spindles, cultural, supported spindles, suspended spindles | |
| Kristin Merritt | Spin It! Cotton on a Spindle | Spring 2016 | 12 | Cotton | cotton, spindles, supported spindles, suspended spindles, tahkli, akha | |
| Susan Sullivan Maynard, Patsy Sue Zawistoski | Hot Button: Boiling Cotton | Spring 2016 | 12 | Cotton | cotton, finishing | |
| Glenna Dean | Cotton Farming in New Mexico Prehistory | Spring 2016 | 12 | Cotton | cotton, historical | |
| Louie Garcia | Cotton Spinning & Sprang in the Pueblo Southwest | Spring 2016 | 12 | Cotton | cotton, cultural, historical | |
| Carol James | The Arizona Openwork (Tonto) Shirt Project | Spring 2016 | 12 | Cotton | community, 2-ply, cotton | |
| Allen Nansubuga | Cotton Spinning in Uganda | Spring 2016 | 12 | Cotton | cotton, cultural | |
| Jill Holbrook | Spin It! Cotton Cactus Flower Shirt | Spring 2016 | 12 | Cotton | cotton, spin it, 2-ply | |
| Jill Holbrook | Knit It! Cotton Cactus Flower Shirt | Spring 2016 | 12 | Cotton | knit it, cotton, sweater | |
| Chitra Balasubramaniam | Khadi: The freedom cloth | Spring 2016 | 12 | Cotton | cotton, cultural, historical | |
| Patricia Santangelo | Weave It! Your First Handspun Cottons | Spring 2016 | 12 | Cotton | cotton, weaving, experimenting | |
| Joan Ruane | Spin It! Cotton on a Wheel | Spring 2016 | 12 | Cotton | cotton, punis, twist |
Cotton is an amazing and ancient fiber. Spinning cotton is a joy, but it is different than spinning wool, silk, or flax. Cotton is a short fiber – depending on where it was grown, staple length can range from as long as 2 inches to much less than an inch. This shorter staple is not a bad thing; it just makes it a little different and sometimes a little more difficult to spin with consistency. This article covers tips for spinning cotton and specifically spinning yarn for the Boll to Bolt Curtains. |
| Tip Jar: How do you manage the twist when you spin singles yarns? | Winter 2015 | 11 | Singles | singles, twist |
PLY readers help you deal with managing twist when creating singles yarns. |
