Book
Homegrown flax and cotton : DIY guide to growing, processing, spinning & weaving fiber to cloth / Cindy Conner.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780811772198 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: viii, 144 pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm
- Publisher: Essex, CT : Stackpole Books, [2023]
- Copyright: ©2023
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Why wear homegrown, handspun clothes? -- Growing flax for linen -- Retting -- Breaking and scutching -- Hackling -- Spinning flax into linen -- Growing and harvesting cotton -- Preparation for spinning -- Spinning cotton -- The cotton project -- How to manage spun fiber -- Turning yarn into fabric -- Clothes to make -- Guilds, fiber festivals, and the fibershed movement -- Spirituality of handspun cloth. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Cotton growing. Cotton manufacture. Dressmaking. Flax spinning. Flax. Linen. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud Branch | 677.11 Con | 31681010397024 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
Cindy Conner received a degree in Home Economics Education from Ohio State University in 1975. She was instrumental in establishing the sustainable agriculture program at Reynolds Community College in Goochland, VA, while teaching there from 1999-2010. She had often sewn her own clothes, and her interest turned to sustainable clothing. In 2011 she learned to spin, then to weave, in order to turn her homegrown cotton into clothes. Since many people canât grow cotton due to climate limitations, she added flax (which has a wider range) to her garden and learned to turn it into linen so that she could teach this process to others. She is the author of Grow a Sustainable Diet and Seed Libraries and Other Means of Keeping Seeds in the Hands of the People.
