Where to start
So you’ve got a wheel, it’s set up, you have a comfy chair, some pleasant background and a beverage. Hold off for a bit. The background and the beverage are still useful, but I think you might want to wait … Continued
Getting set
Some thoughts on spinning, from a, largely, self-taught spinner, with a fiendish tendency to read up on things. Spinning is easier than you think, though watching a practiced spinner can make it seem one will never manage to any level … Continued
On plateaus
In the course of growth when pursuing a skill there come points of levelling off, those plateaus of ability, where our talents seems to rest. It’s not really what’s happening Our skill, be it with words, an instrument, making yarn, … Continued
Odds and ends
Fiber is high tech. It’s higher tech than most of us think. Making cheaper cloth was the first phase of the industrial revolution. The punch card started programming as a way to automate weaving (looms are, in their way, binary. … Continued