The fiber arts have gained more popularity, particularly after the pandemic, as the trend of an analog life — less phones and ...

Many say they got into spinning because they couldn't find the right color or yarn texture so they made their own.

Elk Mountain Equine Sanctuary presented a spinning wheel demonstration Friday for the senior clients at Telespond Senior Services in Scranton. The sanctuary brought three lambs to the center to show ...

About 10 years ago, Trafford resident and knitting enthusiast Liza Jennings Seiner began to wonder: where does yarn come from? “I’ve been a knitter since I was a kid, and it just never occurred to me, ...

4-H volunteer Lindsay McHugh, right, assists Aileen Gravot, 12, and her mom Christine make a macrame bracelet during a 4-H Yarn Club meeting, in Pitman, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. Linda McHugh’s Pitman ...

Like knitting and crocheting, spinning – the process of twisting fibers together to make yarn – is enjoying a comeback. Textile artists want “to control the front end of their yarn,” says Sarah ...

Cathy Lambrecht, the grandmother of a student at Loveland Community Preschool, visited classes to teach the younger generation about spinning wool on Tuesday. “I think it’s important for kids to know ...

Waltin (Knit (Spin) Sweden!) delivers an informative guide to spinning wool from start to finish. First, she discusses wool characteristics of various sheep breeds, pointing out that the Gute sheep’s ...

After brushing the billowy, thick white fur of her Angora rabbit Mollie, Karen Lamb feeds strands of fur into a spinning wheel, pinching every few seconds to create an even mound of yarn on a cylinder ...

STAMFORD – It’s not a post-turkey delusion. Close-up, wool looks something like a yard bird. “Each individual fiber looks like a chicken's leg, it's got little scales on it,” Marianne Marugg said.