Category: cotton

  • Fibre Prep

    Fibre Prep

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      red/rust – 2/16 cotton – teal – 16/2 cotton I keep coming back to my microscope photos of yarns, willing myself to better understanding what is happening in the yarn. I learned to spin in 1974, long before I had any intention to take up weaving.  But I became fascinated by what was happening…

  • Flax vs Cotton

    Flax vs Cotton

      Fabric Science 7th edition page 23 cotton (left) and flax (right) Textile Science 2nd edition page 51 flax A while ago I was reading an article about a new discovery that placed humans working with fibres back even further than we thought previously.   Textiles tend to degrade and discoveries were rare, or were dismissed…