5/19/2023 0 Comments A Weaver's Garden by Rita BuchananEvery kind of wool yarn from unspun roving (as a warp!) to worsted or woolen singles, to plied woolens or worsted, to novelties. Mainly, I learned about yarn and time.Rita weaves with every kind of fiber and yarn style you can imagine. While the focus of Rita’s videos is handspinning, I learned so much about weaving while watching her work. She spins and weaves her own placemats, table runners, napkins, aprons, kitchen towels, bath towels (handwoven terry cloth!), shirts, jackets, blankets, pillow cases – in short, she lives in an environment of beautiful handmade cloth, all made to her own specifications. Rita, having retired from a fine career in writing and editing about fiber and gardening in order to spend all her time actually working with fiber and gardening, is arguably the most productive maker of handspun textiles in the developed world. I* recently had the pleasure of working with master spinner-knitter-weaver Rita Buchanan on a couple of videos:* How I Spin and In Praise of Simple Cloth (due out in November).
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