Titre:
Homegrown flax and cotton : DIY guide to growing, processing, spinning & weaving fiber to cloth
Auteur:
GVPL_EDITION:
First edition.
PUBDATE:
2023
GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:
Essex, CT : Stackpole Books, [2023]
©2023
Description matérielle:
viii, 144 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):
9780811772198
Résumé:
"A complete guide to growing flax and cotton in your home garden for the purpose of making clothing: how to grow, harvest, and prepare the fiber for spinning into yarn; how to spin cotton and flax/linen; the basics of weaving cloth; and suggestions on patterns and how to weave to create the pieces you need for clothing, and how to sew your woven pieces together."-- Provided by publisher.
Table des matières:
Why wear homegrown, handspun clothes? -- Growing flax for linen -- Retting -- Breaking and scutching -- Hackling -- Spinning flax into linen -- Growing and harvesting cotton -- Preparation for spinning -- Spinning cotton -- The cotton project -- How to manage spun fiber -- Turning yarn into fabric -- Clothes to make -- Guilds, fiber festivals, fibershed movement -- Spirituality of handspun cloth.
LANGUAGE:
Anglais
