A SMALL UPRIGHT SPINNING WHEEL CONSTRUCTION MANUAL, Richard & Myrna Schneider.
This charming diminutive wheel is compact and easily portable. Measured drawings, photographs and detailed, step-by-step instructions help you every step of the way. You do need a lathe to make this wheel.  Softcover, $7.95  #549002

SPIN TO KNIT: The Knitter's Guide to Making Yarn, Shannon Okey.
Do you want to knit with something other than commercial yarns?  Dare to be different — become a full-fledged fiber fanatic with Spin to Knit, the essential guide for knitters wanting to learn to make their own yarn!  Urban spinner Shannon Okey, author of KnitGrrl, teaches the basic tools you need to get started spinning: whether you should begin with a drop spindle or a wheel, and how to control singles, twist, and ply.  Shannon also discusses incorporating color into spinning, from "dishwater dyeing," to incorporating beads, thread, or other media into yarns for visual interest.  Inventive patterns include a thrift-store garment that is jazzed-up with the addition of a beautiful handspun trim, a boatneck pullover that combines both mill- and hand-spun yarns, a retro pom-pom scarf, a traditional lace shawl, and much more.   ISBN-10: 1596680075.   8½'' X 9'' softcover.  128 pages.  $21.95  #169298

SPINDLE SPINNING:  FROM NOVICE TO EXPERT, Connie Delaney.
This is a manual for the spinner, who, like most spinners around the world do their spinning the time worn way on a weighted stick of some form or other. A very well produced text with good essays on spinning and clear line drawings and photos of the various processes and techniques, this slim tome will inform the novice and inspire the expert.   This book takes you through the basics of spinning, including preparing wool to spin.  The chapters cover top-whorl, bottom-whorl, Navajo, Turkish and supported spindles, as well as how to make several types of spindles. 80 pages, black and white photos and diagrams.  ISBN-10: 0966095200.  Softcover, $15.95  #139167

SPINNER'S COMPANION, Bobbie Erwin.
This is a quick reference guide that both beginning and experienced spinners will use to look up common spinning terms, find out how to maintain their wheels, and learn how to process fiber and spin yarn. The fourth book in the best-selling Companion series (with over 100,000 copies in print), this handy spiral-bound offering is an authoritative tool that spinners will want to keep beside their wheel or with their handspindle at all times.  Spiral bound, 112 pages, 5 x 7, ISBN:1-883010-79-9 $19.95  #239043

SPINNING COTTON ON A CHARKHA,

*Charkha 101 Synopsis 
Learn to spin cotton the easy way!  Learn how to tune and maintain the charkha,  how to determine the ratio, and how to spin to specification.  We will also cover cotton types and properties. 

Learning Objectives 
1.  Understand charkha 
2.  Understand yarn terminology 
3.  Learn the long draw 
4.  Spin cotton easily 

**Charkha 201 Synopsis 
This class is for experienced point spinners.  We will cover tools and techniques for spinning consistent yarns, techniques for improving speed, and techniques for separating colors in striped slivers. 

Learning Objectives 
1.  Learn to spin for consistency 
2.  Understand yarn terminology 
3.  Learn some speed techniques 
4.  Learn color separation techniques

$34.95  #559012

SPINNING DESIGNER YARNS, Diane Varney.
A long awaited re-print of an old favorite! Few things are as satisfying as creating the perfect yarn for a special project. This book, first printed by Interweave Press in 1987, leads the new or intermediate spinner gently into the world of super-soft luxury fibers, textured effects, and the dyepot’s miracles. Learn to apply dye to fibers in new and exciting ways, predict how novelty yarns will look in finished fabrics, blend fibers for color and texture effects, and spin singles and plied yarns in ways that will put more zip in your spinning—and your weaving, knitting, and crocheting. Corespun, bouclé, snarl, knotted, and tufted yarns will become part of your spinning repertoire, and you’ll rediscover the excitement of spinning all over again. ISBN: 193149939X. 7" x 9 1/4" softcover, 96 pages. $16.95  #239071

SPINNING WHEELS AND ACCESSORIES, David Pennington & Michael Taylor.
"Collectors of spinning wheels, antique dealers, and lovers of textile tools will be excited that Pennington and Taylor are back with another great book about spinning wheels, including over 350 color photos to go with their painstaking research.  Their emphasis remains the American spinning wheel from 1775-1900, and they have substantial sections on fancy European wheels as well as the various accessories that textile tool collectors crave.  Special sections on Shaker wheels, patent wheels, famous makers, as well as extensive coverage of chair wheels, Irish castle wheels, double flyer wheels, and an appendix with over 1000 makers and their makers marks are highlights that collectors and dealers will treasure.  The pieces shown in this book are all from private collections, so it gives the buyer access to pieces never seen before, including some European fancies that have sold for over $25,000!
ISBN-10: 0764319736. 8½" x 11½" hardcover.  $59.95   #139363

THE SPIN-OFF INDEX AND RESOURCE DIRECTORY, Spin-Off Magazine.  
Twenty-three years of articles indexed by subject and author, more than 200 spinning shops and product suppliers, and a world's worth of spinning guilds. How convenient!  OUT OF PRINT - NOW AVAILABLE AS A PDF AT INTERWEAVE PRESS.

SPIN-OFF MAGAZINE, Interweave Press.
THE magazine for spinners.  Articles on spinning, equipment, fibers, fiber animals, knitting, weaving, dyeing and much more.  Current issue and recent back-issues in stock, $7.99 each (unless marked otherwise).  For a listing of issues, with photos of covers, Click Here.

START SPINNING: Everything You Need to Know to Make Great Yarn, Maggie Casey.
Make the yarn of your dreams! You can buy yarn anywhere, but spinners know that the best yarn is the kind you make for yourself. Start Spinning takes you from loose fiber to yarn made on a spindle and spinning wheel, with friendly advice and a sure hand at every step. Developed over two decades of teaching beginners, Maggie Casey's techniques and tidbits will have you creating delightful yarns to knit, weave, crochet and admire.  ISBN-10: 1596680652.  8 1/2'' X 9'' softcover. 119 pages.  $21.95  #139628

STOREY"S 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 - one copy left in stock

Storey's Guide to Raising Sheep, Paula Simmons.
Here's a definitive book on small-scale sheep raising.  It gives you complete up-to-date basic information, in understandable form, on every phase of sheep raising.  Paula and her husband have been raising sheep for 20 years. She has faced all the problems she writes about.  Her book is an enjoyable offering of practical know-how.  ISBN: 1580172628.  Illustrated.  Softcover, $18.95  #139140