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How Fine is Your Fiber? Bradford Count vs. Micron Count

April 19, 2008

When choosing a raw wool fleece or other type of animal fiber, one of the things you’ll want to know before you purchase is how soft the fleece is. As anyone who has ever worn a scratchy wool sweater knows, the softness or fineness of a fiber should probably be the #1 consideration if you’re [...]

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Spinning Hemp

April 12, 2008

I’ve got a couple of spinning projects going at the moment – the one I’m going to focus on today is the hemp I’m spinning. I bought this hemp recently from Morro Fleece Works and I’m spinning it on my Schacht Matchless spinning wheel. I’ll confess right now that I didn’t really know how to [...]

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The Difference Between Roving, Top, Batts, Etc.

March 22, 2008

When you first become interested in the fiber arts, especially in spinning, you can quickly become overwhelmed by all the terms people throw around. While this post won’t attempt to completely cover all the terminology involved, I’ll take a stab here at something a lot of beginning spinners ask – what’s the difference between various [...]

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