I’ve come a decision about the direction I want to take this blog in. I still want to inform people about different fibers. However I also want keep to the whole reason I started this blog which is to share my life and my rescued animals with you. To be honest I’m having trouble keeping […]
Wool Processing
Corn Fiber is an interesting fiber. I thought” OK, it’s a vegetable fiber. I have direct dyes it will dye beautifully. ” Well here is what happened when I tried. As you can see the fiber took no color at all there are a few silk pieces that clung to it as it was in the […]
Corn is a interesting plant with many uses. Corn fiber or Corn silk as it is sometimes called is actually the starch of the plant and not the silk we remove for eating. Corn fiber is produced by breaking down the starches into sugars. The carbon and other elements in these natural sugars are then used to […]
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 […]
Alpaca dyes pretty well. Here are some examples of wool, white suri and white huacaya washed and then dyed. I used the same dyepot for all 3 fibers. Top Left suffolk wool washed, top right huacaya fiber washed, left bottom suri fiber washed. Top Row:1st picture is from left to right wool, huacaya, and […]
Alpaca fiber comes in 2 varieties suri and huacaya. Huacaya reminds me of a lanolin-free, super-soft sheep fleece. Suri reminds me of supersoft mohair or just washed soft silky hair. Washed Suri Fiber Alpaca is very soft and silky it has no lanolin but can be very dusty as alpacas like to take dust baths. […]
Cashmere dyes beautfully. It is a matt coloring as there seems little shine on cashmere. It’s so incredibley soft that I don’t think it matters. Here is what it did when I carded it. I admit I’m pretty new at carding cashmere. I’m doing more research to see if I can card it with other […]
I’ve posted about fiber goat care. So you have fiber how do you process it and what do you do with it? Cashmere goats produce a double fleece that consists of a fine, soft undercoat and much coarser outer coating of hair called guard hair. For the fine under-down to be processed further, it must be de-haired. […]
The mission at The Fiber ofMy Being is to educate and inspire people to support my philosophy. I want to be able to help as many fiber animals as possible. My philosophy is that “we have engineered many of our domesticated species that they cannot live without us, therefore we are responsible for them.” That being said the mission of […]
Taking care of angoras is more work than with the other farm animals. They require at least a weekly grooming in addition to pellet food, water, and all the hay they can eat. Rabbits are solitary animals for the most part although many people have had great experiences with combining neutered and spayed animals. Some […]
