At the carpet weaving center we visited on our trip to Cappadocia in Turkey this past July. All the wool dyes are made from natural sources of flowers, berries, leaves, and/or bark.
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Update: The Birds of Beebe Woods poster is in my Etsy shop . Now that the piece is finished, I can spend time reviewing how I made some of the parts. Opportunities to see the original piece are li…
About two years ago I saw a snapshot of a DIY turkish spindle on Ravelry. It inspired me to build something that I like to call paleo spindle for myself. Of course I have no proof that something like that was actually used in the Paleolithic but I would imagine that it is quiet possible considering that it's build from stuff readily available in nature and does need nothing more than stone age ...
The Faust family, Anderson County, Tenn. at spinning wheel in front of cabin
1 photographic print. | Photograph shows people in front of a cabin processing and spinning flax. From right to left: Mary Faust standing next to large walking wheel, an umbrella swift, another woman seated at a spinning wheel with a distaff and a skein winder in front of her, and a man processing flax on a flax break with a counterbalance loom behind him.
