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Note: All the recipes on this page are designed for animal fibres (wool/silk/alpaca/mohair etc) and acid dyes unless otherwise stated, and are not suitable for cellulose based fibres such as cotton/flax/linen.
All of the tutorials on this page were written by myself or my sister Tracy. Tracy's tutorials appear on knitting-and.com with her permission.
Drip Dyeing
Dyeing Spun Yarn Evenly
Hand Painting Using the Cold Padding Method from Ashford Handicrafts Including instructions for painting yarn, finished knitting, silk caps, roving and dyeing colour-change yarns!
How to Dye a Mottled Yarn: Doing it all wrong on purpose!
Overdyeing
Rainbow Dyeing the Ashford Way
Tie Dyeing Yarn
Skirting Your Fleece
Washing Your Fleece Sarah's Way
Washing Your Fleece Tracy's Way
What to Avoid When Buying a Fleece
Preparing Silk Caps for Spinning
Sari Silk Waste
Spinning Hand Painted Rovings
Heathered Yarns Made With a Drum Carder
Heathered Yarns Made Without a Drum Carder
Self Striping Yarns (drum carder optional)
Speckled Multi-Fibre Batts
Variegated Yarns
Visual Colour Blending
Handspun Yarns Photo Gallery
Heathered Yarns: The effect of spinning on multicolour roving
Plying a Perfectly Balanced Yarn
Spinning Beaded and Bobbled Novelty Yarns
Tips for Spinning Cat Hair Other Stuff :)
Basic Reconditioning of the Ashford Traditonal Spinning Wheel
Yarn Count
Find out what those mysterious numbers on cones of yarn really mean!
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