by David | Feb 11, 2013 | Downloads, Fibre Picker, Picking, Techniques, Tools of the Trade
Save $$$ and Build your Own Fibre Picker Finally, finally, finally! The plans for the FAB Fiber Picker have been completed. So many other tasks kept presenting themselves as more important than the plans, that I seemed to get only five minutes each week to work on...
by David | Jan 25, 2013 | Animals, Blowing, Cleaning & Processing, Techniques, Tumbling, Uncategorized
Cleaning animal fleece ready for processing has to be the most difficult and time-consuming part of fibre work. In fact, for many people, their first encounter with raw fleece, whether from sheep, llama, alpaca or goat, will be their last. Each type of fleece has...
by DesignerLynne | Oct 18, 2012 | Techniques
The sun was shining, the llamas were full of kisses for everybody and judging from the smiles all around, I would say everyone had a great time at the latest in our series of fibre arts workshops. Saturdays subject revolved around a curious desire to wrap a bar of...