Six drafting techniques for crafting any yarn you can imagine with your own two hands.|
As a spinner, your most important, versatile tools are your own skilled hands. With those eight fingers and two opposable thumbs, plus a half-dozen simple techniques for manipulating the fibre supply, you can spin a full suite of yarn styles. The nuts and bolts:
Worsted
Semi-worsted
Woolen
Semi-woolen
Slub
Boucle
You'll begin by seeing the unlikely possibility of spinning the six different yarns styles with a single fibre preparation. You'll end by witnessing this revered master spinner, in a miracle of energetic ambidexterity, draft two fibre sources simultaneously into a single strong, lofty, funky novelty yarn. And so can you.
