Learn how to spin yarn by hand and get quality drop spindle instructions. Start using this tool that’s hardly changed since the Stone Age. I taught myself to spin when I was about 13 years old, using ...

To Georgia Tech’s Zhong Lin Wang, even tossing and turning in bed is a possible source of renewable energy. Wang’s group has made energy-harvesting yarns—primarily composed of common garment materials ...

Advancements in yarn spinning and manufacturing have the potential to disrupt global sourcing and change the formula for the cost of production. During a Texworld USA seminar last week, experts in the ...

This collection of videos chronicles an expansive and deeply personal fiber arts journey, combining hands-on tutorials, historical insight, creative exploration, and emotional storytelling. From ...

Spinning a yarn: Javad Foroughi with his nanotube-based material. (Courtesy: University of Wollongong) Researchers at the University of Wollongong in Australia and the University of Texas at Dallas in ...

Since opening in November, a 600-square-foot space in Irving Park has been home to people looking to slow down thanks to wooden tools used to spin raw wool into yarn. Inclement Craft, 3436 W. Irving ...

Researchers unexpectedly discovered that the ability for spirals to form in nature also happens in some non-biological systems that convert chemical energy into mechanical action -- allowing ...

Rue Toland has been spinning yarn for over 20 years. It wasn’t until she moved to New Hampshire that she had a flock of her own sheep to shear and make homemade yarn. Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s ...

It has long been assumed that the ancient Dorset and Thule people learned how to spin yarn from Norse settlers who arrived in Newfoundland some 1,000 years ago, according to the Canadian press. “There ...

Finnish sustainable textile company Spinnova is partnering with Portuguese spinning mill Tearfil in an R&D yarn spinning operation that will be located at Tearfil’s facilities in Guimarães, Portugal.