DROP SPINDLE SPINNING  Click Here to Order

With Melda Montgomery.  If you would like to try your hand at spinning before investing in a wheel, try drop spindle spinning.  Melda shows you how to spin on the spindle, wind the yarn onto you hand for plying, and how to ply on the spindle.   Bottom Whorl spindle used in demonstration.

FIBER DYEING  Click Here to Order

Immersion & Painting of Protein Fibers With Deb Menz.  Beginning with a full fleece, you will learn proper skirting, sorting and scouring techniques as you prepare the fiber for dyeing. The applying of color to protein fibers before the fibers are spun is easy and fun. First, learn step-by-step how to use the dyes and dye your fibers in a dyepot. (Deb will be working with Lanaset Dyes.) A color wheel is used as a reference to figure out how to mix your own colors and create your own dye formulas. A second approach to applying color on fibers is to directly paint dye onto unspun roving. You will also learn how to use the painted fibers to create complex, repeatable multicolored yarns.  approx 60 min.  

FIBER PREPARATION & Multi-color Blending Techniques,

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With Deb Menz. This video includes many wonderful ways to prepare fiber for spinning, using both drum carder and combs. The focus is on how to use fibers that have already been dyed to create multicolored yarns. It starts with drum carding "101" - how to effectively choose and use a drum carder. Then it's on to blending colors to create new colors. You'll learn how to get predictable results, how to blend luxury fibers, & how to create multicolored drum carded batts so the colors stay clear and bright. Multicolored yarns can also be created using combs. By using already combed and dyed solid wool top, the multi-colors will be created by using a multistep process of arrangement of colors on wide combs or hackles. Designing plied yarns with color effects in mind concludes this video workshop.  approx 100 min  

HANDSPINNING WOOL-Advanced Techniques

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"As usual with Victorian Videos, the production is clear, crisp and professional. The camera zooms right is so you can see exactly what you're trying to accomplish" SPIN-OFF MAGAZINE.  Mabel Ross says that when we first learn to spin, we take what we get, and try to do something with it. In this video, Mabel will change all that for you as she teaches you how to spin yarn to a predetermined size that will fit the needs of your current project. You will learn how to prepare and spin different lengths of fibers to make worsted and woolen yarns for weaving or knitting, using shortdraw and traditional longdraw techniques. You will learn how to make a plied yarn of any exact thickness with just the right amount of twist, for various purposes, & how to repeat it exactly, at any time. You will learn to spin yarns of average thickness, very thick yarn, soft knitting yarn, and extremely fine gossamer yarn for knitting lace. If you're just beginning to learn to spin, we recommend you start with "Spinning Wool-Basics & Beyond"  112 minutes  

SPINNING WOOL - BASICS & BEYOND Wheels, Fiber Preparation & Spinning Techniques.

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"Easy to follow, great for the beginner ...I found this video exceptionally informative with tips even a more advanced spinner may have forgotten or overlooked."

With Patsy Zawistoski. If you're ready to start spinning on a spinning wheel, or have been doing some, but don't quite have the control you'd like, this is the video for you. In addition to a thorough explanation of single drive band, double drive band, & bobbin lead spinning wheels, you will learn about wheel set-up, fiber preparations, spinning various fiber preparations, pre-drafting, the importance of understanding wraps per inch, how to use a control yarn, woolen & worsted spinning techniques including point of twist, fingered draft, double drafting & spinning a parallel preparation. Learn how to ply from 2 bobbins or from one ball, make a 3-ply from one source. All of this will make your handspinning beautiful & successful.   102 minutes  

SPINNING COTTON, SILK & FLAX 

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By Patsy Zawistoski. Each of these fibers has its own unique history, and each is available in its own unique form and each requires various modifications of spinning technique. You will learn all about this in this video. Plus you will learn about the various fiber preparations that can be purchased, plus appropriate drafting, plying and finishing techniques for each fiber. You will learn how the choice of original preparation affects the finished yarn. Each fiber will be addressed separately, allowing you to study one fiber at a time. It will be helpful if you are familiar with wool spinning, and comfortable with your spinning wheel.   111 minutes

SPINNING & PLYING TEXTURED YARNS

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Patsy Zawistoski.  The video spinners have been waiting for! Using seven spinning recipes, you will make cabled, knotted, soft twist singles, spirals from different singles, 3-pass boucles, core-spun boucles, and mixed twist "illegal" spirals.  With theses recipes, you will then make many varieties by using nine design factors to change the resulting yarn.  You will learn the importance of having a control yarn so you can continue creating the same yarn and how to make quick skeins and set the twist.  The section on twist analysis will help you determine how much plying each type of yarn. 117 minutes  

SPINNING EXOTIC ANIMAL FIBERS AND NOVELTY YARN, Click Here to Order

Judith MacKenzie Video. In this course you will learn how to spin many exotic fibers including Camel, Llama, Alpaca, Cashmere, Angora, dog rabbit and of course Quiviuet from our friend the Musk Ox. The video also includes live footage of many of these animals so that you can become better acquainted. You will also learn how to spin many types of novelty yarn using a combination of fibers and spinning techniques. Tips on buying these fibers and the best end use of the yarn is also included.  96 minutes 

Spinning cotton on the Charka  

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with Eileen Hallman.  This program is divided into two sections: Basic Techniques and Charkha Proficiency. Learn how to assemble the Charkha, safety tips, basic spinning, potential problems and their solutions, techniques for winding on, storing spindles, setting up and using the charkha and skeiner. The second section is more intermediate. Learn how to start a new spindle without a leader, several speed spinning techniques, ways to achieve consistency, and how to measure yarn diameter, twist angle and yarn count. Eileen’s angle gauge helps you with qualitative checks to get consistent results time after time.

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Spindles Around the World  Order DVD 416 $39.95

This program shows advanced spindle techniques for using ethnic spindles such as Navajo, Russian, Turkish, Takli, Akha, and Balkan. It includes segments on low and high whorl spindle designs, hook tweaking, whorl notching, winding cops, doffing (removing) yarn, plying and Andean Plying, using Nostepindes, using various distaffs, and spinning from the fold. There’s even a chapter about making CD spindles and accessories from household items. 60 min.

Charka Spinning: Tips and Techniques Order DVD 417 $39.95

Elaine Benfatto's years of experience will help existing and new Charkha users with discussions of fibers and fiber preparation, advanced and non-traditional Charkha fibers, trouble-shooting, positions, techniques for faster and more consistent throughput, plus lots of additional topics. 75 minutes.

Cotton Spinning Made Easy Order DVD $44.95

This film is ideal for those who have just started to spin and want to know more about spinning wheels, how to care for spinning wheels, and who wish to learn an easy, efficient method of carding fiber. There are simple basic steps to lead you into spinning cotton for the first time or to improve your cotton spinning. For the advanced spinner who has never spun cotton or had success in spinning cotton, this film will give spinning tips that will make spinning cotton easy. It also shows how simple it is to use these handspun yarns for knitting or weaving.  120 minutes

ART OF FIBER DYEING   Order  VHS 953 $34.50

Learn an uncomplicated approach to creating your own wonderful array of color on fiber. Three dye procedures for protein fibers are included. Method 1 shows the use of union dyes. Method 2 & 3 use acid dyes. You will create a rainbow dye bath in method 2; method 3 demonstrates injection dyeing. The dyes & methods work equally well with yarn, although the video focuses on unspun fiber dyeing. Written outline & source list included. Sandy Sitzman  53 minutes