 | The Natural Knitter: How to Choose, Use, and Knit Natural Fibers from Alpaca to Yak by Barbara Albright
Buy used from: $3.55 Brand new and packed with information about using natural fibers to spin and knit amazing things.
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 | Spinning and Weaving with Wool by Paula Simmons
Buy used from: $8.26 let's start from the very beginning
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 | Weaving, Spinning, and Dyeing: A Beginner's Manual by Virginia G. Hower
Buy used from: $4.59 follow the process from sheep to shawl
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 | Hands on Spinning by Lee Raven
Buy used from: $16.94 step by step
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 | Spin It by Lee Raven
Buy used from: $8.49 good info about the drop spindle, which is fun to use when you can't bring your wheel
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 | The Whole Craft of Spinning: From the Raw Material to the Finished Yarn by Carol Kroll
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $1.40 everything you need to know
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 | Spinning Designer Yarns by Diane Varney
Buy used from: $14.14 going beyond the basics
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 | Natural Dyes and Home Dyeing (Dover Pictorial Archives) by Rita J. Adrosko
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $0.01 classic dye manual with good recipes and advice
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| Natural Dyes by Sallie P. Kierstead
Buy used from: $25.00 excellent beginners' book with great photos and directions
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| A Dyer's Manual, First Edition by Jill Goodwin
Buy used from: $25.00 more good info and help
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 | Craft of the Dyer: Colour from Plants and Lichens by Karen Leigh Casselman
Buy new: $10.16 / Used from: $2.50 Another great reference. Each of these contains info that the others do no.
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 | Charlie Needs a Cloak by Tomie dePaola
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.98 delightful kids' story about the wool process, from white fleece to red cloak
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| Natural Dyes for Spinners and Weavers (A Batsford craft paperback) by Hetty Wickens
Buy used from: $10.68 step by step manual
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| Growing Herbs and Plants for Dyeing by Betty E. M. Jacobs
Buy used from: $3.45 how to grow your own dye plants, now that you know what to do with them
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| Spin Span Spun: Facts and Folklore for Spinners and Weavers by Bette Hochberg
Buy used from: $26.56 facts and folklore about the ancient textile arts
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| Fibre Facts by B. Hochberg
Buy used from: $20.25 everything you'd want to know about natural fibers
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| Dyes from Nature: Plants & Gardens (Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record, Vol. 46, No. 2)
Buy used from: $0.01 Articles about the important dye plants. How'd the Redcoats get that color?
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 | Homespun, Handknit
Buy used from: $35.00 What to do with that pretty yarn you've just made!
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 | Felt: New Directions for an Ancient Craft by Gunilla Paetau Sjoberg
Buy used from: $51.95 Homespun wool/yarn felts wonderfully! Handbook on all the different felting and fulling methods.
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| A Book of Spinning Wheels by Joan Whittaker Cummer
Buy used from: $150.00 There are countless types of wheels and reels. Great info and photos here.
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 | Indigo from Seed to Dye by Dorothy Miller
Buy used from: $16.74 The ins and outs of this ancient dye
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 | Flax and Linen (Shire Library) by Patricia Baines
Buy used from: $2.76 History and other facts about linen, one of the oldest fabrics in the world.
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