Bright Moon Imogen - Wild Yarn Creating Hand - Spun Yarn From Ethical Fibres - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: A practical and inspirational guide to choosing blending and spinning richly textured artisan yarn for weaving knitting and other textile art applications. Imogen Bright Moon is a British Romani textile artist who creates richly textured highly tactile woven textile works from yarn that she spins and blends herself. In this elegantly designed book Imogen reveals the secrets of her practice. In evocative engagingly written text accompanied by sumptuous images of her work in her studio throughout the year she explains: How to choose raw fibres for use in your work: the author's are ethically sourced from various ecologically responsible sources including a rescue flock of sheep on the South Downs. How to put together different types of fibres raw sheep's wool plant fibres such as hemp soya and wild silk alpaca hair and much more to create richly textured yarn. The delicate art of blending naturally occurring pigments working with shade and tone to create subtle and nuanced colours a process that Imogen likens to a painter mixing paints on a palette. The principles of hand - spinning from a simple single spun thread to more complicated yarns such as triple - chain ply yarn using a traditional floor spindle. How to skein soak and wet - finish your yarn and how to store your yarn stash. Ideas for taking your yarn into finished craft and art projects with details of the author's own work. With an emphasis on engagement with nature the rhythms of the seasonal craft cycle ethical making sustainability and mindfulness this book is ideal for weavers textile artists and anyone seduced by the joys of yarn.
Title: Wild Yarn Creating Hand - Spun Yarn From Ethical Fibres
Author(s): Bright Moon Imogen
Publisher: Batsford Ltd
Barcode: 9781849949019
Pages: 128 Pages, Over 100 Colour Photographs
Publication Date: 9/24/2024
Category: Spinning & Weaving