The Complete Guide to Spinning Yarn

Includes basic techniques for making your own yarns as well as recipes for more adventurous yarns for experienced spinners. Step-by-step sequences explain techniques for the preparation of fibres, spinning a single thread, plying single threads together to make a balanced yarn, and creative use of colour. Once you have mastered the techniques, there are lots of recipes for a huge range of textured yarns in various colourways and fibre combinations - includes mohairs, two-plies, flecked, spiral, boucle and bullion yarns. Also includes suggestions for using each type in terms of drape and durability. Includes a special section about marketing and selling your work.

Brenda Gibson is an active member and past chair of the London Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers. She has won awards for her spinning and weaving, and teaches both. She is past winner of the Fashion and Textiles Award from the V&A for their Inspired by... competition. She uses her handspun yarns for knitting, crochet and weaving.