Hi there
i'm new to the forum, obviously. i am a retired (ha!) road-protestor turned handweaver and i'm interested in how to make spinning fibres from vegetable materials commonly found in british forest such as ferns and nettles, hemp etc
i know how to card wool with hand/drum carders, and i can spin with a wheel or drop spindle. i can also weave, obviously
what i need to know is how one treats the raw vegetable material in order to break them down into fibres suitable for spinning.
i vaguely remember seeing a program on TV about this, and there;s no doubt a lot of soaking and bashing involved, but i can't be doing with a long drawn out process of trial and error, especially as i'm tied to a house for the best part of the summer and can't just go out and live in the woods
so, does anyone know of any online resource or book i can read to tell me how to prepare vegetable fibres?
i'm going to start searching the forums and links on this site, but i thought i might as well post a topic anyway to say hi
thanks in advance everyone
ps. i blog at weave4fun.blogspot.com
if weaving doesn't interest you, don't bother visiting, obviously
i'm new to the forum, obviously. i am a retired (ha!) road-protestor turned handweaver and i'm interested in how to make spinning fibres from vegetable materials commonly found in british forest such as ferns and nettles, hemp etc
i know how to card wool with hand/drum carders, and i can spin with a wheel or drop spindle. i can also weave, obviously
what i need to know is how one treats the raw vegetable material in order to break them down into fibres suitable for spinning.
i vaguely remember seeing a program on TV about this, and there;s no doubt a lot of soaking and bashing involved, but i can't be doing with a long drawn out process of trial and error, especially as i'm tied to a house for the best part of the summer and can't just go out and live in the woods
so, does anyone know of any online resource or book i can read to tell me how to prepare vegetable fibres?
i'm going to start searching the forums and links on this site, but i thought i might as well post a topic anyway to say hi
thanks in advance everyone
ps. i blog at weave4fun.blogspot.com
if weaving doesn't interest you, don't bother visiting, obviously