THE SHEEP BOOK: A Handbook for the Modern Shepherd, Ron Parker.
This comprehensive guide to raising and maintaining sheep has been in print since 1983, and reprinted with revisions and additions in 2001.  Whether you have one new lamb or a huge flock, a responsible shepherd of any age — one who is 12 or 60 — would want a thorough yet undaunting reference. This is that book. Other books may be prettier to look at, but this is technical, practical, friendly and sometimes even humorous. An indispensable guide. ISBN: 0804010323.  6'' x 9'' softcover, $24.95  #139141

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 IT, Lee Raven.
This little book will teach you all you want to know about handspindles and how to use them to make your very own yarn. Designed to appeal to the beginner spinner, tips and hints are provided that illustrate how easy, enjoyable, and relaxing spinning can be. Handspindles are the simple tools that help you to turn wool into yarn: from a potato on a stick, to beautiful handcrafted wood spindles and new-age titanium spindles with CD whorls. Included are complete instructions for five simple, appealing projects: a woven scarf, a knitted bunny bag, a spiral-knit baby hat, knitted fingerless mittens, and a crocheted felted brimmed hat. Once you begin spinning on a handspindle, you won’t want to stop—it’s soothing, portable, and mesmerizing.  Paperbound, 8 3/8" x 10 7/8", 32 pages, 20 color photographs, and 40 color illustrations.  ISBN: 1-931499-36-5.  $11.95  #239029

SPIN SPAN SPUN: Fact & Folklore for Spinners and Weavers, Bette Hochberg.
This delightful book is accurately reflected by its subtitle.  It contains page after page of historical, biblical, fictional, mythological, and biological references to spinners, spinning, wool, cotton, flax, spinning wheels and spinning.  While the book will not make you a better spinner, it will give you a lot of enjoyable reading.  ISBN-10: 0960099034.  5½'' x 8½'' softcover. $9.95  #109477

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, $15.00  #139167

VIDEO/DVD - SPINNING AND WEAVING THE ASHFORD WAY. 
This 67 minute video was revised with added new material late in 1999 from the earlier Ashford video covering Ashford equipment and how to use and assemble selected equipment.  Shown is assembly, spinning, plying, carding, warping and weaving on the Ashford range of equipment, including the new Table Loom with a demonstration of the simple warping method.  VHS or DVD, 67 minutes.

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 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 IN THE OLD WAY, Priscilla A. Gibson-Roberts.
Loose fibers become yarn because of a twist, which holds them together. Just by adding twist you can create yarn that is sturdy enough to be knitted or woven into fabric. All you need is a high whorl spindle, unspun fiber, a few yards of leftover knitting yarn, and the guidance of a master spinner and knitter Priscilla Gibson-Roberts.  ISBN-10: 0966828984   6'' X 9'' softcover.  160pages.   $14.95  #139430

SPINNING WHEELS AND ACCESSORIES, David Pennington & Michael Taylor.
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 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