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Author:	Constance Jackson	Format:	--
Publisher:	Wm Collins & Sons & Co	ISBN-10:	0002169681
ISBN-13:	9780002169684	Educational Level:	--
Product Type:	--	Publication Year:	--
Subject:	--	Language:	--
Condition:	Acceptable

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Comprehensive source book on the crafts of weaving, spinning and dyeing.
Illustrated with numerous photographs, including 16 pages in full color

CONTENTS INCLUDE:

1. SPINNING WHEELS: Buying a spinning wheel - How a spinning wheel works - Care of your spinning wheel - Other equipment needed for spinning

2. THE WORLD OF WOOL: Choosing your first fleece - Wool for spinning - Sheep breeds - Sorting a fleece

3. WASHING AND STORING WOOL: To wash or not to wash before spinning - Standard wash for fleece - Washing Merino and Halfbred woold - Washing spun wool - Preshrink and softening processes for knitting wool - Storing fleece

4. PREPARATION OF WOOL FOR SPINNING: Teasing - Combing - Flick carding - Hand carding - Drum carding - Putting an electric motor on a drum carder

5. SPINNING PART 1: LEARNING TO SPIN: Drafting - Treadling - Drive ratio - The leader and tensioning - Spinning a continuous thread

6. PLYING FOR PLAIN KNITTING WOOL: Plying - Problems with Plying - Examining your knitting wool

7. KNITTING WITH HANDSPUN WOOL: Comparison with millspun wool - Knitting needles - Tension sampling - Knitting patterns - Making a pattern for a raglan jersey - Knitting a jersey with a Fair Isle yoke on circular needles

8. SPINNING PART 2: MORE ADVANCED SPINNING: A summary of drafting methods - Worsted and woollen spun yarns - Spinning a worsted thread using the short draft - Spinning a woolly-worsted using the medium draft - Spinning a woollen thread using the long draw - Spinning to suit the fleece - Spinning for maximum efficiency or production spinning - Construction and design of yarns - Spinner's gossip

9. DYEING WOOL: General dyeing equipment - Synthetic dyes - Dye colours - Recipe and method - Mixing colours, basic rules - Plant dyes - Mordants and mordanting - Plants, preparation and proportion - Dyeing methods - Tests for fading - Dyes from trees, garden flowers, vegetables, weeds, native plants, lichens - Dyer's gossip

10. WEAVING: Equipment for weaving - Loom types - Buying a table loom - Buying a treadle loom - Reeds - Heddles - Other accessories

11. YARNS AND SETT: Yarn - Yarn counts - The sett of the cloth - Estimating sett

12. GETTING READY TO WEAVE: Planning the warp - Making a warp - Raddling - Beaming - Threading - Sleying - Making the front tie - Quick reference guide for dressing the loom

13. LEARNING TO USE A LOOM: Weaving a heading - Checking for errors - Work in progress - Some problems - Selvedges - Shuttles and bobbin winding - The weaver and the loom

14. FINISHING THE CLOTH: Mending - Washing - Fulling - Drying

15. PROJECTS FOR NEW WEAVERS: Reading drafts - Ten projects for table looms - Ten projects for treadle looms

16. WEAVER'S FANCY: Postscript for the rigid-heddle loom - Four lace weaves - Four surface interest techniques - Postscript for the four-shaft loom - Warping with two threads - Making a raddling cross - Time saving tips - Making a draw-down

17. HANDSPUN WARP AND WEFT: Spinning the yarn - Making the warp - Sizing the warp - Suggestions for weaving - Problems in finishing

TITLE:   THE WOOLCRAFT BOOK Spinning Dyeing Weaving
AUTHOR:   Constance Jackson & Judith Plowman
PUBLISHER:   Collins, Auckland, 1980
DESCRIPTION:   Hardcover with dustjacket. 192 pages
CONDITION:   VG+/VG+
Overall minimal signs of wear - binding is tight, name on front endpaper, otherwise interior pages are clean.
Dustjacket is clipped at lower front flap corner

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