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Popular Wheel Mechanics

In Popular Wheel Mechanics, you’ll learn the nuts and bolts of a wide range of popular spinning wheels and how to get the most out of each of them.

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Spinning the New Fibers

This course will teach you tips on how you can identify, blend, dye, spin, and use synthetic fibers.

Spinner's Color Toolbox: How to Spin Colorful Textured Yarns

Master spinner Judith MacKenzie will show you how to use several different methods for creating beautiful color palettes using yarn and other commercially dyed fiber.

Spinner's Guide to Color Theory: Mastering Color Without Dyeing

The Evolution of Wool

In The Evolution of Wool, Judith MacKenzie unlocks the secrets to understanding wool. You’ll learn how wool grows, how the thousands of sheep breeds we have today came from the very first sheep, and why this should matter to the contemporary spinner.

Spinning Luxury Fibers

In Spinning Luxury Fibers, your spinning world will rapidly expand as you learn how to handle luxury fibers from master spinner, Judith MacKenzie.

Gentle Art of Plying

In Gentle Art of Plying, you’ll go beyond the basics of plying with Judith MacKenzie as she illustrates how to unlock the extensive world of yarn design and fabric construction.

How to Spin Yarn to Knit with Kate Larson

Create exactly the yarn that you want with handspinning expert Kate Larson as your guide. Creating yarn for knitting is different than creating for other textiles such as weaving or embroidery.

Spinning Silk: Sensuous, Successful Yarns from Luxurious Silk

In Spinning Silk with Sara Lamb, you'll see how easy it is to spin gorgeous, lush silk. Sara will show you how to spin a variety of silks using a drop spindle and spinning wheel. As a bonus, you'll also learn how to dye silk.

Spin to Weave: Making Unique Cloth From Your Handspun Yarn

Do you want the rewarding feeling of knowing that you created your fabric from scratch? In Spin to Weave with Sara Lamb, you will learn how you can create your own handspun yarns to use in your weaving designs.

The Weaver’s Yarn Companion

The choice of yarn can make or break a weaving project, making the weaving experience and the finished project either satisfying or disappointing. In this video, master weaver Tom Knisely teaches you how to choose the perfect yarns for your projects.

Weaving with Novelty Yarns

In this video, master weaver, mythbuster, and yarn explorer Tom Knisely shows that weaving yarn doesn't have to come on a cone, and that weaving with novelty yarns opens a whole new world of design possibilities for woven fabric.

Life After Warping

Liz Gipson believes that weaving should be a fun and easy process for everyone. In Life After Warping you'll learn about the proper tools to use, how to transition colors smoothly, and what to do if you bust a warp thread.

Natural Dyeing

Who understands color better than Mother Nature? From quiet to riotous, nature’s color schemes are always harmonious, and natural dyes can be used to create beautiful, vibrant colorways.

Overdyeing with Natural Dyes

Just as primary colors—blue, red, and yellow—combine to produce the rest of the color wheel, natural dyes can be combined and modified to produce the full color palette.

Spinning Gossamer Threads: The Yarns of Orenburg

In Spinning Gossamer Threads, Galina Khmeleva takes you on a journey back in time to the place where the iconic Orenburg shawls were first created.

Spin Flax and Cotton: Traditional Techniques

Twice as Nice: Weaving with Two Heddles on a Rigid-Heddle Loom

Slots and Holes: Three Ways to Warp a Rigid-Heddle Loom

In Slots and Holes, Liz Gipson will show will show you how to warp your rigid-heddle loom quickly and easily so that you can create anything from plain fabrics, to plaids or complex stripes.

Spinning Cotton

In Spinning Cotton, Stephenie Gaustad is out to revive an art that is often overlooked by today’s contemporary spinners; spinning cotton.

The Efficient Weaver

The most common complaint of weavers is that they don't have enough time for weaving. Production weaver and teacher Laura Fry has an answer: weave more efficiently so you can make the most of the weaving time that you have.

The New Spinner’s Guide to Troubleshooting

Love spinning, but have persistent problems you can't seem to solve? Abby Franquemont answers your questions, shows examples, and demonstrates why these things happen and how to address them.

Warping Your Loom

In Warping Your Loom, Master weaver Madelyn van der Hoogt tackles the often frustrating task of the warp.She'll walk you through different methods of warping so you can begin weaving yarn in a way that is comfortable for you.

Weaving Overshot

From heirloom coverlets to dazzling contemporary household textiles and garments, overshot is one of the handsomest of weave structures.