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Fiber Arts, LLC Your Central Wisconsin source for weaving,
spinning, knitting, crocheting, tatting, bobbin lace, felting, dyeing, and
locker hooking equipment, books, and supplies.
ESSENTIALS OF
HANDSPINNING, Mable Ross. This book has a great
amount of material in its 40 pages. Among other things, the author shows
you how to produce handspun yarn in the same sizes as commercial yarn.
This makes it possible to spin a yarn to use in a specific knitting
pattern. The book ends with a chart of spinning faults and remedies.
40 pgs. Softcover, $14.95 #139212
FIBRE
FACTS, Bette Hochberg.
This handy book is about natural and synthetic fibers: properties, behaviors,
uses and more. Geared towards weavers, but useful to the handspinner, as
well. A classic! 66 pages, paperback, $9.95 #109491
Flax
Craft, Virginia Handy.
A compilation of the newsletter of the same name from 1993-99, now available in a one volume publication by the Flax Institute of the U.S.
Spiral bound, 8 1/2" x 11", 120 pages. $14.95
#549001
A
GUIDE TO RAISING LLAMAS, Gale Birutta.
Subtitled "Care, Showing, Breeding, Packing, Profiting," this new
guide leads the llama breeder and lover through all these areas of llama
husbandry with great attention to details and a contagious love for these
ancient domestic creatures. The nitty gritty of a llama's daily routine are
explained with charts, drawings, and photos. The section on guard llamas, full
of anecdotes, will warm your heart and make you want to get a llama!
ISBN-10: 1580173284. Softcover. $18.95 #139110 Out
of print - limited to stock on hand.