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A Cotton Tale
I found a bale of exotic Sea Island cotton that a local farmer grew several years ago just sitting, abandoned at the gin. This is the Primo-of-Primo longest staple cotton, the princes of handspinning cotton fibers. I grabbed it up only to find that it was full of field trash, leaves & twigs and now the step-child of spinning.
What to do? How to make this into a real Cinderella?
Joan Ruane (see Cotton Spinning on a Tahkli and Cotton Spinning Made Easy ) came to the rescue and took it to a mill in Texas that cleaned every last bit of trash from this luxuriously white cotton and turned it into the most elegant carded sliver cotton. It's like nothing else you've ever spun: the true belle-of-the-ball Sea Island Cotton Sliver!
Love Cotton? Learn to spin it!
Watch a 9 year old learn to spin cotton!
Melina "catches on" how to spin
Melina Catagua, a nine year old from the village of Zapote, Ecuador is learning a 4000 year old cotton fiber technology.
Spinning is done with a horizontally held spindle. The cotton is retained by a "rueca" a wooden tripod that has a notch cut into the top of the stick.
If you love to travel, love to spin and love to combine the two, you're going to love the new Schacht Sidekick very-portale spinning wheel!
Introducing the Sidekick , our folding spinning wheel that is compact, easy to fold and unfold, and above all else...a superior spinner. She is everything you are looking for in a traveling companion.
Click here to watch Jane Patrick and Barry Schacht show off their new, uniquely designed portable spinning wheel! It's a must-see whether you are a spinner or not! Pure genius in design and function!
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Ever Wonder How it's Made?
From Field to Fabulous Yarn
Whether you are hand spinning on a spindle or wheel or working with industrial spun yarn,it's basically the same process of drawing out the fiber the fiber and adding enough twist to hold it together as a yarn.
Our Supima Cotton Sliver comes from this type of mill just before it is spun into world renowned Supima yarns.
