Handspun Designs

Discover your own creativity with the ancient - yet timeless - art of hand spinning

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Hand Spinning

Spinning is a skill that has been practised for thousands of years. The earliest societies spun whatever fibre nature provided for them - animals such as sheep, alpaca, camel and goat in colder areas, and the fibres of plants in warmer regions such as cotton, linen, ramie (nettle fibre) and hemp.

Silk is a unique fibre in that it is the spun thread of the caterpillars of silk moths and for hundreds of years the Chinese and Japenese closely guarded the secret of its production.

All these fibres - and more - are available to us today.

The only limit to what we can achieve is our imagination