Learn to weave
Q How do I weave on a knitter's loom, rigid heddle loom or table loom?
A: Ashford have made the following guides available for you to read online. Printed copies of the guides are supplied with your loom.
- learn to weave on a knitters loom
- learn to weave on a rigid heddle loom
- learn to weave on a table loom
Books
Courses
- Derbyshire: Spinning, dyeing and weaving holidays with Alison Daykin (external link to Skylark Holidays' programme and prices). Alison also has a less formal 'Monday night group': spinningandweaving.weebly.com
- South West: Louise Cottey teaches at Coldharbour Mill (external link to Coldharbour Mill website)
- Manchester: Weaving workshops courses with Beetlefelt (external link to beetlefelt)
Fibre
A range of fibre from wool to exotic and luxury fibre for spinning, dyeing, felting: wool, silk, alpaca, cashmere, mohair, camel, yak and angora ready to spin. Also raw fleece
Spinning wheels
A range of Ashford Spinning Wheels delivered quickly to your door. I usually have some second hand spinning wheels listed.
Magazines and cards
Why not add one or two to your order? These cards, hand made by Jules of 'Always with a Heart' feature a textured sheep. Perfect for Christmas for your friends or for the spinner / knitter in your life. I now stock Selvedge magazine and Yarnmaker magazine.
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Spinning cotton, free eBook
Have you spun cotton? Did you know that it grows in natural colours as well as white?
This free eBook from SpinningDaily gives us some history, some tips for spinning the very short fibre with some patterns.
