Straight from the horse's mouth, figuratively: For the consumer, the best way to shrink any cotton article is to tumble dry. The …
Commercial fiber
Textile Treasures in Siler City, NC
Downtown Siler City, NC, is home to a thriving arts community with an amazing number of resources for textile artists, including weavers, …
Experimenting with recycled t shirt scrap
A month ago, I brought home a truckload of t shirt scrap from TS Designs in Burlington. It's sorted by color, and I've started sorting each …
Sorting scrap fabric by size
Last week, I went to TS Designs in Burlington and came home with a truckload of t shirt scrap fabric. I sorted my load into piles by major …
Recycled t shirt scrap
Several months ago, a fiber-artist friend told me she'd worked with recycled t shirt factory scrap from TS Designs, in Burlington, NC. I …
Raw Selvage
When I bought the 100-yard warp that's now wound onto the Newcomb, I experimented with a 10# bag of short selvage pieces. The saleperson …
Nepalese Silk Yarn
I wasn't particularly looking for a new knitting project when I wandered into the Diva Yarn store in Port Townsend, but when I saw the first …
