Homegrown Flax and Cotton: DIY Guide to Growing, Processing, Spinning & Weaving Fiber to Cloth 9780811772198, 9780811772204, 0811772195
Grow your own sustainable clothes! From seed to shirt, Cindy Conner shows you how to plant, grow, harvest, process, spi
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Table of contents :
Cover
Contents v
Introduction vii
Chapter 1. Why Wear Homegrown, Handspun Clothes? 1
Chapter 2. Growing Flax for Linen 6
Chapter 3. Retting 16
Chapter 4. Breaking and Scutching 21
Chapter 5. Hackling 27
Chapter 6. Spinning Flax into Linen 33
Chapter 7. Growing and Harvesting Cotton 43
Chapter 8. Preparation for Spinning 54
Chapter 9. Spinning Cotton 60
Chapter 10. The Cotton Project 65
Chapter 11. How to Manage Spun Fiber 74
Chapter 12. Turning Yarn into Fabric 84
Chapter 13. Clothes to Make 94
Chapter 14. Guilds, Fiber Festivals, and the Fibershed Movement 106
Chapter 15. Spirituality of Handspun Cloth 114
Glossary 116
Resources 120
Appendix A: Quick Reference 124
Appendix B: Tabletop Flax Brake 125
Appendix C: 1-Yard Swift 129
Notes 133
About the Author and Photographer 138
Index 139
Cover
Contents v
Introduction vii
Chapter 1. Why Wear Homegrown, Handspun Clothes? 1
Chapter 2. Growing Flax for Linen 6
Chapter 3. Retting 16
Chapter 4. Breaking and Scutching 21
Chapter 5. Hackling 27
Chapter 6. Spinning Flax into Linen 33
Chapter 7. Growing and Harvesting Cotton 43
Chapter 8. Preparation for Spinning 54
Chapter 9. Spinning Cotton 60
Chapter 10. The Cotton Project 65
Chapter 11. How to Manage Spun Fiber 74
Chapter 12. Turning Yarn into Fabric 84
Chapter 13. Clothes to Make 94
Chapter 14. Guilds, Fiber Festivals, and the Fibershed Movement 106
Chapter 15. Spirituality of Handspun Cloth 114
Glossary 116
Resources 120
Appendix A: Quick Reference 124
Appendix B: Tabletop Flax Brake 125
Appendix C: 1-Yard Swift 129
Notes 133
About the Author and Photographer 138
Index 139
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