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Ashford Spinning and Weaving DVD the popular Ashford instructional video is now available as a DVD. (Video is still available at £30 plase ask) One disc. 67 minutes £10.25 inc VAT Price: £8.54 Excluding VAT at 20%		Quantity:

Ashford Weaving on the Knitter's Loom DVD Instructional DVD for users of the Ashford knitter's loom £13.25 inc VAT Price: £11.04 Excluding VAT at 20%		Quantity: OUT OF STOCK

	Big and Lofty Yarns DVD When you start spinning, it seems like all you can spin are fat, lumpy yarns then you get the hang of it and figure out how to make fine, smooth, thin yarns, and you spend the rest of your spinning career trying to figure out how to make those smooth yarns big and lofty. In this video, Maggie Casey demystifies the process, explaining just how to make miles of the soft big yarns you want to knit, weave, and crochet with. With this workshop, you will: Prepare you wool on a drumcarder. Learn how to adjust your wheel's take-up. Use the perfect drafting technique for trapping air in your yarn and getting it on your bobbin as quickly as possible. Learn how to preserve the loftiness of the yarn through plying and finishing. Maggie Casey's soothing voice and gentle encouragement are surpassed only by her spinning knowledge gleaned through years of teaching at her spinning shop in Boulder, Colorado. Let her guide you on your spinning journey to a land of big, beautiful yarns made by you! 1 disc. 71 minutes running time. £16.00 inc VAT Price: £13.34 Excluding VAT at 20%
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Color Works for Spinners - DVD by Deb Menz Simple tools and tricks for making the most beautiful colours in the world, includes blending techniques; working with hue, value and saturation; colour matching; combining multiple lended batts and much more. 2 discs 56 minutes; 40 minutes Bonus PDFs and colour wheel and value scale £29.00 inc VAT Price: £24.17 Excluding VAT at 20%
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	Color and Yarn Design for Spinners - DVD by Deb Menz Inspiration and know-how for creating yarns that sing! Learn to use a colour wheel and value scale; train yourself to analyse the components of a colour; make effective blends for singles and plied yarns and much more. 2 disc set: 49 minutes and 39 minutes Bonus PDFs and colour wheel and value scale £29.00 inc VAT Price: £24.17 Excluding VAT at 20%
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Double Weave Basics - DVD by Jennifer Moore four shafts - two layers - so many possibilities. Learn to weave a fabric twice the width of your loom, with no seams; weave a farbic with intersecting layers; weave pockets and seamless tubes; change the tie-up to get many structures in one warp; weave lace over a plain weave background; weave stitched, quilted and pique fabrics. 2 discs (64 mins and 65 mins) £29.00 inc VAT Price: £24.17 Excluding VAT at 20%
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	Dyeing in the Kitchen DVD Dyeing your own yarn or fiber offers the same satisfaction as making your own homemade soup. You know exactly what goes in it, you can tweak the ingredients to get exactly what you want, you can make endless variations from just a few basic ingredients. Plus, it’s fun! And you can do it right in your own kitchen! Deb Menz knows the process inside out, and she is a master of making color alchemy attainable for anyone. All you need is some wool, silk, or other protein fiber and a few basic dye powders to mix and match as you please. In this cheerful session, Deb talks about: Equipment and safety Choosing basic dyes that are safe and easy to use Making stock solutions to keep handy for color mixing Simple (really simple!) math for creating repeatable colors if you want to Color mixing - the sky’s the limit. After that, it’s all fun! Deep-water and low-water dyeing, dip dyeing, resist dyeing, ombrés, self-striping yarns, squirting, injecting, dribbling - and overdyeing if you don’t like what you get the first time. Along the way, you will pick up useful hints on color theory so you can get just the effects you want. 1 disc. 75 minutes running time. £16.00 inc VAT Price: £13.34 Excluding VAT at 20%
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(The) Gentle Art of Plying - DVD by Judith MacKenzie Beyond singles - creating the yarn you want. Informed and skillful plying can make all the difference between "just another yarn" and "just the yarn you want" In this video Judith Mackenzie presents not just the basics - how to hold you hands, where to put your lazy-kate, but an extensive adventure in to the possibilities. 2 discs (58mins and 47 mins) £29.00 inc VAT Price: £24.17 Excluding VAT at 20%		Quantity:

	Getting Started on a Drop Spindle DVD Have you always wanted to spin but haven’t yet found someone with the patience and skill to teach you? You’re in luck - Maggie Casey is here to gently lead you by the hand into the wonderful world of spinning. Learn about the simplest way to spin yarn, with the drop spindle, and use it to start adding twist into your fiber and make the yarn of your dreams. With this workshop, Maggie: Provides a description of the spindle’s parts and styles of spindles as well as materials you need to get started. Teaches the park-and-draft technique, showing how to take control of the process of spinning and master drafting, twisting, and storing your yarn on the shaft of the spindle. Demonstrates how to spin continuously while standing up. Shows how to take the yarn off the spindle and twist two strands together in the opposite direction to create a plied yarn. Finishes with techniques for setting the twist, creating a skein, tying it, and washing it. Maggie will have you making your own yarn before you know it. Create great yarn for any of your knitting, crochet, and weaving projects. There is truly no limit to what you can accomplish with a drop spindle in your hands.! 1 disc. 55 minutes running time. £16.00 inc VAT Price: £13.34 Excluding VAT at 20%
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Handspinning Advanced Techniques - DVD by Mabel Ross you will learn how to prepare and spin different lengths of fibres to make worsted and woollen yarns for weaving or knitting, using short draw and traditional longdraw methods. You will learn how to make a plied yarn of any exact thickness with just the right amount of twist and how to repeat it at any time. You will learn how to spin a wide range of yarns from very thick, to soft spun, to fine, gossamer weight. 1 disc 112 minutes £17.00 inc VAT Price: £14.17 Excluding VAT at 20%		Quantity: OUT OF STOCK

Handspinning Rare Wools - DVD by Deborah Robson the fleece from 38 rare and endangered breed sheep from UK and USA are explored. Learn how to wash, card, comb, spin and finish these fibres. You will see the unexpected variety from wool that feels like jute, to wool that stretches and bouces back. 2 discs (88mins and 98 mins) £29.00 inc VAT Price: £24.17 Excluding VAT at 20%		Quantity:

How I Spin - DVD by Rita Buchanan How to control yarn size with your hands, not wheel adjustment; how to prepare fibre using carders, combs and more; no-fuss way to dye fibre in the oven; easy approach to plying and why plying may not matter; how to spin whilst reading and much more. 2 discs (65mins and 90 mins) £29.00 inc VAT Price: £24.17 Excluding VAT at 20%		Quantity:

	Louet Instructional DVD an instructional DVD presenting everything from operating techniques and ease of use to special features of Louet weaving looms. It contains a great deal of information that is perfect for the beginner to experienced weaver. 2 disc set. £17.00 inc VAT Price: £14.17 Excluding VAT at 20%
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Peg Loom & Stick Weaving Made Easy DVD A step by step guide to weaving on a peg loom and weaving sticks, complete with some ideas of things you can make. £9.50 inc VAT Price: £7.92 Excluding VAT at 20%
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	Popular Wheel Mechanics - DVD by Judith MacKenzie how to choose the wheel you want, love the wheel you have got and truly master the machine. You will learn how the wheel size influences spinning, how to spin six different yarns by making simple wheel adjustments, how to fill a bobbin properly and why it matters and dozens of other facts and exercises that will make you a better spinner and you'll have fun learning. 2 discs (64 mins and 60 mins) £29.00 inc VAT Price: £24.17 Excluding VAT at 20%
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Spinning For Lace - DVD by Margaret Stove tired and true methods for spinning fine yarns from merino and more. Learn to adjust your wheel tension for exquisite delicacy; handle a fleece without felting it; ply a balanced yarn or tweak your hand positions for plying different fibres together. 1 disc (85 mins) £16.00 inc VAT Price: £13.34 Excluding VAT at 20%
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	Spinning Luxury Fibres DVD by Judith Mackenzie Spinners today have such an abundance of fibre choices, it is hard to know where to begin and how to handle these precious fibres. Hands-on teaching style will give you inspiration, confidence and good results. Fibres included silk, camel, llama, yak, cashmere, quiviut and alpaca. Learn how to prepare each fibre, spin it and finish your yarn and the fascinating history and lore of each fibre. 3 disc set (Disc 1 silk - 71 minutes, 2 camelids - 69 minutes, 3 undercoats - 54 minutes) £34.00 inc VAT Price: £28.33 Excluding VAT at 20%
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