Learn how to spin yarn by hand and get quality drop spindle instructions. Start using this tool that’s hardly changed since the Stone Age. I taught myself to spin when I was about 13 years old, using ...

Eri silk yarn, spun in India’s northeast via the amber charka, produces 20-40 Nm yarns at ₹860/kg. Carding improves output (300g/day vs. 175g) and quality, but issues like low tensile strength and ...

Advancements in yarn spinning and manufacturing have the potential to disrupt global sourcing and change the formula for the cost of production. During a Texworld USA seminar last week, experts in the ...

To Georgia Tech’s Zhong Lin Wang, even tossing and turning in bed is a possible source of renewable energy. Wang’s group has made energy-harvesting yarns—primarily composed of common garment materials ...

Rue Toland has been spinning yarn for over 20 years. It wasn’t until she moved to New Hampshire that she had a flock of her own sheep to shear and make homemade yarn. Sign up for the Concord Monitor’s ...

This article is reproduced from the April 2007 issue of Pakistan Textile Journal. During the spinning of fibres into yarn cost is incurred at each processing stage. In general, the processes involved ...

Researchers unexpectedly discovered that the ability for spirals to form in nature also happens in some non-biological systems that convert chemical energy into mechanical action -- allowing ...