Not literally of course……too cold and wet to spin. I wanted to do some spinning this week. As opposed to all the knitting last week. SOoooooooo… onto the pics. Or how about a silk blank plied with wool and then andean plied back upon itself. I couldn’t believe the amount of yarn I […]
Silk Spinning
So what comes to mind when you think of silk? Usually it’s something luxurious, smooth, rich and self-indulgent. Silk is all of those things. It’s also crazy strong and dye-able. Here is what I did with my samples: I dyed both types of silk , I used both acid dyes and direct dyes in the same […]
The first thing I always tell people about silk is that it is wormspit(usually while they are petting it). I just can’t help myself. There are more than 500 species of wild silkworms in the world although only a few are used to produce cloth. The first worm I will be talking about is the […]
